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From the infamous Dutch tulip hysteria of the 17th century to the Great Depression to the dot-com crash, wild bouts of speculation have occasionally inflated financial bubbles that "soaked investors when they burst". Numerous economists and sociologists have attempted to explain these phenomena using the standard finance theory of expected utility, which has been accepted as a normative model of rational choice2, and widely applied as a descriptive model of economic behaviour. Kahneman and Tversky However, with the emergence of…...

HIS term from 1987 to 2006 is truly unprecedented. He had his finger on the pulse of the economy from the beginnings of the dot. Com boom Into the post 9-11 world. He maintained most of his control of the economy implementing his practice of "inflation targeting". Inflation targeting Is a monetary policy tool In which Greenshank would attempt to control the rate of inflation. The Federal Reserve would release to the public a predicted rate of inflation which would…...

When times are good everyone trusts the word of the chairman of the Federal Reserve. During the boom of the beginning of this decade the word of Alan Greenshank was golden. The old adage "if it aunt broke, don't fix it" seemed to apply to the reappointment of Alan Greenshank at each election season. Even when a democratic president left office, he was reappointed by the incoming Republican president rather than being replaced by a republican counterpart. Alan Greenshank controlled…...

Financial bubbles have existed from the time humans began trading with one another. However, these bubbles were usually confined to a particular commodity or company and when the bubble burst the fallout was usually limited to a small segment of the population. As human enterprise evolved and the financial system developed complexity and became more intertwined with a larger segment of the population, a bursting financial bubble would have a more far reaching and destructive effect on the society. For…...

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident. At the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet in 1824 as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation, in 1829. The second revision, published in 1837, was the first digital (binary) form of writing. History Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed by Charles Barbier in response…...

The Dot-com Bubble or the Tech Bubble was a speculative bubble in the shares of early internet companies called “Dot-coms.” Soon after the 1987 stock market crash, global stock markets resumed their previous bull market trend, led by computer and other technology-related stocks that were traded on the new electronic NASDAQ stock exchange. By the early 1990s, personal computers were becoming increasingly common for both business and personal use. Now that computers were finally becoming reasonably priced and relatively user-friendly,…...

1.Name the four essential needs every child must have to thrive developmentally. Give an example of each need. (12 points) The four essential need that every child must have to thrive development are: 1. Physical needs : Personal hygiene ; washing hands, brushing teeth, and bathing. For example In my program I wash children’s hands all the time before and after lunch and after recess. 2. Psychological needs : Security and trust , familiar surroundings with family and teachers. For…...

Write a 1-page, single-space, 10-point font case analysis on the Amazon Case making sure to address the following questions: 1. On a scale of “1” (Very Poor) to “5” (Excellent), how would you rate Jeff Bezos as an entrepreneur? How would you rate him as an IT manager? 2. Trace the evolution of the Amazon.com business from the company’s launch in 1995 to the dot-com collapse in 2000. How did the company’s strategy change over time? How did capabilities evolve?…...

Upon its introduction up until the dot com era television was the most popular medium. The ability for news and events to be televised and viewed instantly around the world has given our society the ability to connect with the world by the push of a button. Although TV has made information more assessable it has its weak points as well. Over the years violence on television has become more common and more acceptable. Until the recent push for TV…...

The Dot-Com Crash of 2000 Case Study 1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries are shown in Exhibit 10, with the idea that the overall structure and individual roles are working as a whole to facilitate the capital flow from the investors to the companies. 2. Are their incentives aligned properly with their…...