Tag: Economics

EP10: VENTURE CAPITAL – A QUESTION AND ANSWER DISCUSSION WITH PETER GAUDET
This podcast answers the following questions:

• Who is Peter Gaudet?
• What is venture capital?
• What are the biggest mistakes start-ups make?
• Is the valuation process similar between start-up companies and large-CAP companies?
• Ask the Investors: Explain share buy-backs?

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/ep10-venture-capital-a-question-and-answer-discussion-with-peter-gaudet/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
 
 
 
EP21 : HOW TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE
This podcast episode and article answers the following questions

• What is real estate investing?
• Why you should invest in real estate
• When you should invest in stocks or real estate
• Ask the Investors: How do companies buy back shares when there is no reduction in the number of shares outstanding?

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/ep21-how-to-invest-in-real-estate/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
 
 
 
EP25: DEEP VALUE INVESTING – WITH TOBIAS CARLISLE
Outlined below is an introduction of Tobias Carlisle, and the questions and answers from Preston and Stig’sinterview with him.
Tobias Carlisle, the Managing Director of Eyquem Investment Management LLC, also serves as a portfolio manager for Eyquem Fund LP and other accounts that are managed separately. He has gained a lot of fame and respect mainly as an author on his website named Greenbackd, but he has also earned a special place in the finance world due to his books, Quantitative Value (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Deep Value. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Tobias worked as an analyst in a hedge fund before he founded Eyquem in 2010. He also has a lot of experience as a corporate advisory lawyer who excelled at mergers and acquisitions. With a graduate degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, Tobais has managed to prove his findings with hard facts in his book, Deep Value.
Deep Value provides several theories about activist management and intrinsic value while discussing geniuses such as Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham and Carl Icahn. Simply put, the book explores the ideas behind finding severely undervalued companies and why investing in them is most effective.
https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/ep25-deep-value-investing-with-tobias-carlisle/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
 
 
 
EP34: REAL ESTATE INVESTING WITH JOSHUA DORKIN
This article provides an overview of Preston and Stig’s interview with online real estate investor, Josh Dorkin.
WHO IS JOSH DORKIN?
Josh Dorkin is the owner of BiggerPockets.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., a site that focuses on real investing to help investors. BiggerPockets has quickly gained popularity as one of the best resources on the internet for it’s open architecture and strong community. What started out as an small online forum now has more than 270,000 members, 800,000 unique visitors every month, thousands of articles, and investors who are ready to share their knowledge.
https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/ep34-real-estate-investing-with-joshua-dorkin/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
 
 
 
EP48: INVESTING IN ETFS W/ DR. WESLEY GRAY
This article provides an overview of Preston and Stig’s interview with Wesley Gray, an Executive Managing Member from the asset management company Alpha Architect that specializes in Quantitative Value ETFs.
This article and podcast answers the following questions:

• Who is Wesley Gray and why did he start an ETF?
• What is the difference between an ETF and a mutual fund for the investor?
• Why is an ETF typically cheaper than a mutual fund?

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/ep48-etf-investing-with-dr-wesley-gray/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
 
 
 
 

Use the Quantity Equation for this problem. Suppose the money supply is $200, real output is 1,000 units and the price per unit of output is $1. Calculate the velocity of money? Answer: Assuming money neutrality, if the velocity is constant at the value you solved in part (a), what does the quantity equation suggest will happen if the money supply is increased to $400? Answer: Consider your answer to part (b). Would your answer be different if the short-run rather than the long-run is considered? Explain (i.e. Money neutrality no longer applies) Answer: Now suppose that the money supply is growing at 8 percent per annum and real GDP is growing at 4.6 percent per annum. What is the inflation rate? (Assuming velocity remains constant) Answer: Question 4 Using the Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply (AD-AS) diagram in the short-run,illustrate what will happen to Singapore’s aggregate demand and/or aggregate supply under each of the following situations.State how this will affect the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. The US and other trading partners adopt protectionist trade policies, increasing taxes and tariffs on all imported goods and services. Answer: The government reduces business taxes for all companies operating in Singapore.

4 short but fascinating videos on President Andrew Jackson, as well as various U.S. founding fathers,  on fearing the actions and corruptions of big bankers!!!  Sound familiar to today!!
1 President Andrew Jackson and Big Banks–sounds like today!!!) –(from History Channel)-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knf8KA5aAjw&feature=related
 
2 (Also Thomas Jefferson)  — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnItVN1Gk0 and
 
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7yjfI19b7s
 
4 ( from HBO film mini series on President John Adams– (Watch at the dinner table–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson- who had just returned from Paris, Alexander Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treasury, and John Adams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxKOO0nKwc
 
Regarding the videos for the discussion, I wish to ask how do the conversations of the founding fathers and Jackson relate to today? What did you like the most?

Purpose of Assignment 
The purpose of this is assignment is for students to review the basic principles of economics and the concepts of the circular flow model, showing the connectivity of society’s economic players and the flow of goods and money within an economy. Students will learn how society allocates its scarce resources and how economists are both scientists and policymakers. Students will define GDP and CPI and how they are calculated.
Assignment Steps 
Resources: National Bureau of Economic Research; Principles of Macroeconomics: Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 
Scenario: Your organization’s CEO is concerned that members of the strategic planning committee are not familiar with current economic thought and principles. The CEO has assigned you the task of developing a report to introduce some of these thoughts and principles. 
Develop a 1,050-word report to the members of the strategic planning committee explaining the following information:

• How economists are both scientists and policymakers and what principles society uses to allocate its scarce resources.
• Using the circular flow model, explain the flow of money and goods in an economy.
• How the economy coordinates society’s independent economic actors.
• A country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and how it is defined and calculated.
• How the consumer price index (CPI) is constructed and why it is an imperfect measurement of the cost of living. 

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 
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1. Since cyberspace poses problems for international cooperation, do the problems it poses differ substantially from those governments have faced in the past?
2. Develop optimistic and pessimistic scenarios regarding global cyberspace cooperation.

300 wwords, use all 3 as references APA format

GDP” Please respond to the following:

• In view of the weak economy of the last several years, explain which of the four (4) components of GDP had, or is having, the greatest positive impact in our economy. Use the following historical tables to support your response.
  • Go to the Bureau of Economic Analysis at www.bea.gov Navigate on the home page to where it states “National,” then select “Gross Domestic Product”. Next, select “GDP and the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) Historical Tables”. The direct Web address is http://bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp
  • MAKE IT BRIEF PLEASE