The yin yang symbol is often referred to as "taijitu" in China. It's a familiar symbol you've likely seen many times on jewelry, clothes, notebooks, etc. There are many variants of the symbol, but the most common is a circle composed of two interlocking swirls/teardrops, one black and...
The other is a reflection that I shared at our most recent World Meeting of Popular Movements, and I feel is important to say it again: no people is criminal and no religion is terrorist. Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, andMuslim terrorism does not ...
Intersection of a Line and a Plane: The first step toward finding the point of intersection of a parametric line in three dimensions with a plane is substituting the parametric coordinates of the line in the equation of the pl...
A postcard was sent May 5, 2014 alerting recipients that they would receive a survey. On May 12, 2014 a survey packet was sent to recipients. The envelope contained a cover letter, survey questionnaire, return envelope, and a crisp one-dollar bill as an incentive to complete the survey. ...
We present evidence that individual differences in these tasks do not involve differences in the disposition to overcome an initial intuition while thinking about a judgment. Rather, if there are differences in intuition vs. reflection, they may exist from the outset of a judgment task. In the ...
In her famous article, "The Mirage of Floating Exchange Rates", Reinhart (2000) says that floating rates are even more of a delusion than fixed ones, for the simple reason that they do not exist. Looking at a large sample of countries, she demonstrates that no emerging country actually ...
I’d say fiat money has value for the same reason a dollar backed by gold does. The reason is faith and confidence; the same reason that everything happens in capitalism. What gives a money value is the same thing that has historically given a letter of credit or a bill of exchange va...
Of course, though I am much older than you, I can still outwork most twenty-somethings, so have opportunities to work that do not exist for anyone with disabilities. That said, there must be things you can do to earn more money. Like writing? You write here. Why not find a way to...
exist. Arecent analysis compares checks with ACH and isshown in the last row of Table 1.10Taking the average of the figures shown, the social cost of a check in the U.S. would be$2.94 while an electronic ACH transaction is $1.31, or45% of the cost of a check. If we summedthe ...
3 Changes in bank payment costs over time 3.1 A cross-country analysis of changes in payment costs in Europe As time-series bank level data on payment costs or transactions – when they exist – are not publicly available, determining how payment costs may have changed over time requires ...