was an admirer of Carl Menger, one of the three original Marginal Revolutionaries, crediting Menger in particular for having created an economic theory in time (see his “Time in Economics” in Collected Essays on Economic Theory, vol. II...
Last night, Trump was banging the tariff drum again - this time threatening to view the VAT imposed on goods by countries such as the UK as a tariff, and opening the door to "reciprocal" measures. Business and economics correspondent Paul Kelsowrote this report on what it could me...
Usually, a customer has to book several flights with the airline to reach a different status level. "We believe loyalty should be for everyone - that's why we reward every member for every travel occasion, leisure or business, in upper class or in economy," said Anthony Woodman, vic...
Grade Level:High School (Grades 9-12) / Introductory Economics Class Duration:60 minutes Lesson Objectives: Understand the concept of tariffs and their potential impact on consumer prices. Analyze why tariffs are implemented and how they affect both domestic and foreign markets. ...
Hanna Tarbert, ‘Family Planning and Human Trafficking in China,’ (paper presented at the 13th Annual Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Symposium, Wright State University, 2014). 92. The World Bank, ‘Sex Ratio at Birth,’ inWorld Development Indicators Database,https://data.worldbank.org...
"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy" [Spike MilliganPuckoon] Proverbs "Bad money drives out good" "Money isn't everything" "Money talks" "Money is power" "Money makes money" "Shrouds have no pockets" ...
Along with the highest rating, this group constitutes the high-grade bond class. A1 A + A + A2 A A A3 A − A − A ratings indicate capacity to pay interest and repay principal as strong but susceptible to adverse economic conditions. Baa1 BBB + BBB + Baa2 BBB BBB Baa3 ...
Notes 1. This is true for taps at the same elevation; we leave aside corrections for gravity which are not central to the point of this illustration. 2. The coupling is in linear proportion to the spread at sufficiently small spreads. 3. An added condition is that prices are stationary ...
Merchants who had no place in the feudal pyramid pyramid of serf, knight, priest and king now had the money to buy social status (allowing them to rise out of the social class that they were born into, what a concept!). As the aristocrats began to commute their serfs’ dues from ...
But, like most things with the economy, it wasn't news to get too excited about, with ourdata and economics editor Ed Conwaypointing out that the UK is still far weaker than the US and many sectors are still in desperate trouble... ...