Essays Tagged: "financial crisis"

The Effects of America after the Attacks on September 11th

Sept.2001: A1, A2.After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Northwest Airlines went into a financial crisis that forced them to permanently drop 132 flights a day going out of Metro Detroit A ...

(10 pages) 611 2 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Financial Transaction Tax

increased interdependence inrecent decades has increased concerns about volatility and threats of a financial crisis.This has led many to investigate and analyze the origins, transmission, effects and ... led many to investigate and analyze the origins, transmission, effects and policiesaimed to impede financial instability. This paper argues that financial liberalization andspeculation are the most r ...

(13 pages) 172 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

What caused the great depression?

gan, on October 24, 1929, when stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange dropped drastically. The financial crisis, which was due to the collapse of Wall Street, led to the Great Depression. The tum ... close to bankruptcy in early 1930. Thousands of Australians who were accustomed to having work and financial security suddenly found themselves broke and unemployed.Unemployment, which was rising was ...

(3 pages) 180 1 2.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History

Marie Antoinette, A Great Leader.

emained dignified throughout her entire reign. She decreased costs of the palace when France was in financial crisis. She adopted orphaned children and paid for poorer children's education. She reache ... st every problem that came to her. As soon as she arrived in France she became aware of the growing financial crisis that was at hand. Instead of ignoring the problem, she took charge and dismissed ma ...

(4 pages) 69 1 3.5 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Newspaper Article: Hyperinflation Hits Germany.

a new centre-right government came to power, led by Wilhelm Cuno. This new government faced a major financial crisis.Germany failed to pay reparations in 1922, and in response to this, the French inva ...

(3 pages) 36 0 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Research Methodology.

going on the stock market of China, there are several reasons could be consider. Firstly, after the Financial Crisis of Southeast Asia at 1997, during these years, the government of China encourages b ... nd prosperity of the country. On the other hand, if the economy of the country is goes down or face financial crisis, the trend of the stock market also cannot be stable. This is the dislocation of ec ...

(10 pages) 645 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

This is a short biographical essay about Charles Dickens and gives a short overview about his life/work and books

beth Dickens in theyear 1812.His life in early days was stamped through all kinds of problems, from financialcrisis to the imprisonment of his father. At the age of 9, he earned some education, and wr ...

(3 pages) 36 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

International Economic

Chapter 1Intervention in the foreign exchange market1.1IntroductionBy studying the financial crises that took place since 1997 in Asia, Russia and South America, it can be found that ... e hard hit.In fact that the collapse of the Thai Baht in July 1997 was followed by an unprecedented financial crisis in East Asia. Thai government fixed the exchange rate of Thai Baht to US Dollars at ... a fixed exchange rate system connected to US Dollars. In order to prevent the occurrence of similar financial crisis in Southeast Asia, Asian Central Banks have piled up their reserves into US dollars ...

(13 pages) 369 1 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

How Parmalat Went Sour

Here's the skinny on Europe's enormous financial scandalIn the wake of the financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom (MCWEQ ), and Tyco Interna ... pened to $8.5 billion to $12 billion in vanished assets. That sum makes Parmalat one of the largest financial frauds in history. Some questions and answers about the collapse of what was once consider ... collapse of what was once considered a jewel of Italian capitalism:ADVERTISEMENTWhat triggered the financial crisis?Parmalat defaulted on a $185 million bond payment in mid-November. That prompted au ...

(5 pages) 136 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Let It Pour: My First Assignment As Executive Assistant

ctors have towards administering care to patients. The second problem that I have identified is our financial crisis. I need to brainstorm what we can do to avoid the potential loss of revenue for our ... will have to come to a unanimous consensus in each of the SOP"s before they can be adopted. Financial costs can be more easily tracked and budgeted. If we know what we are going to do in each ...

(11 pages) 852 1 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A thought on the Asian financial crisis Connecting The Romans and current crisis

e, so it's very hard to give a definition which can precisely explain it's nature. However, all big financial crisis, just as the last Asian currency crisis, lead to a conclusion that it's more than i ... entral banks - the more independent they are, the more stable national currency is.The latest Asian financial crisis is a modern example to this claim. Currencies of Asian countries hit by the crisis ...

(4 pages) 67 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Our Government is Doing What?

The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is going through a financial crisis. Looking at the schools, it can be hard to believe that about eight years ago the s ... percent decline in funding for UC (16 percent in the last four years), in exchange for promises of financial predictability in the future." (Shane Paul Goldmacher. "Schwarznegger's Education Failures ... ryone.So the K-12 schools and colleges are all having problems, but they are a small portion of the financial debt. Looking into the California's Legislative Analysis (http://www.lao.ca.gov/2004/spend ...

(5 pages) 37 0 3.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

ries of Antoinette's excesses are vastly overstated. In fact, rather than ignoring France's growing financial crisis, she reduced the royal household staff, eliminating many unnecessary positions that ... emnation to the scandalous stories spread by royal hopefuls. It was the nobility that balked at the financial reforms the government ministers tried to make, not the King and Queen, who were in favor ...

(3 pages) 50 0 4.4 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ideological differences in George Washington's Cabinet

took oath as president of the United States in 1789, he and his cabinet were faced with a state of financial crisis. The federal government had no money and had inherited war debts to the French and ... milton, who was Secretary of Treasury of the United States, had a plan for dealing with the nations financial problems. He proposed that the federal government pay of war debts and assume the debts of ...

(4 pages) 29 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Movie Theater Industry The purpose of this memo is to discuss the current film exhibition industry's operating environment and future growth prospects, as well as highlight the predominant players

dustry recently plagued by bankruptcies and theater closings. Many wall-street analysts believe the financial crisis that forced a dozen theater chains into bankruptcy since 1999 has nearly run its co ...

(7 pages) 82 0 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Analyse and evaluate the social and economic causes of 2 of the 1848 revolutions.

onalism. The common causes of the 1848 revolutions were economical problems such as food shortages, financial crisis, unemployment, high prices and social problems such as division between upper and l ... ion showing that the revolution was not necessarily a success but it also shows us that even though financial problems did play a part, they were not the decisive factor in the initiation of the revol ...

(3 pages) 27 0 0.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The case of the building material sector in China

wn, East Asia becomes the fastest growing region in the world. Since the re-establishment after the financial crisis in 1997, this region has experienced a high speed growth, such as China, Vietnam, T ... ivate enterprises had reached 2.2 million (HSBC, http://www.hsbc.com.hk/hk/bps/aoc/aoc_eco.htm).The financial sectors also have been improved a lot. In 1994, foreign bank were allowed to conduct forei ...

(13 pages) 153 0 4.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The Argentine Financial Crisis

Executive Summary_____________________________ ________The Argentine financial crisis took place between 1999 and 2002. However, events dating back to 1990 help in under ... the IMF. Another, smaller growth period followed, and lasted until 1998 when the Asian and Russian financial crises hit. This economic downturn in the macro environment had a great effect on internat ... isk averse. At this point Argentina's debt had become too much for their economy to handle, and the financial crisis began.After Argentina fell, close trading partners, such as those in MERCOSUR, bega ...

(10 pages) 115 0 3.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

A letter explaining Relationships in the Loman family in "Death of a Salesman"

ut he just walked away. Aunt Linda took good care of me and even though the family was going though financial crisis she never made me feel that. She cooked really nice dinner for me and we even had a ...

(3 pages) 1573 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Organizational Behaviour: Cross- Cultural Problem at Peninsular Insurance.

nced in Malaysia in 1985 lasted for only one year with a mild 10 percent contraction (The Malaysian Financial Crisis: Economic Impact and Recovery, 2002). Malaysian recession affects Malaysia's stock ... not actively looking for work and they comprise nearly half of the total unemployed (The Malaysian Financial Crisis: Economic Impact and Recovery, 2002). Therefore, if this category of unemployed is ...

(26 pages) 356 0 4.9 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies