What forces are particularly strong-how does your firm’s positioning weaken these forces-Discuss whether your firm can sustain its competitive advantage.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Services Positioning Paper Explain how your current (or previous) firm (or organization) is positioned to compete against its rivals: Cost or benefit leader? Broad or narrow focus? Describe the distinctive resources and capabilities that your firm has; and how those capabilities are leveraged to fit its strategic position in the industry. Be […]

How would the firm it self locally mitigate the issue, would increasing % of exports, will it help-how what other methods can be used to tackle this issue.

Iron ore, steel and management Research and business economic analysis Iron ore supply and demand steel supply and demand iron ore Forecasted prices – short, mid and long terms steel Forecasted prices – short, mid and long terms Effect of steel recycling and other factors affecting iron ore and steel prices Effect of tesla breakthrough […]

Do you favor increasing taxes-do you prefer reducing benefits to fix the problem?

Social Security and Medicare Shortfall The Social Security and Medicare Shortfall-Discuss in your Journal post the key long-run problem of both Social Security and Medicare. Do you favor increasing taxes or do you prefer reducing benefits to fix the problem? Explain your position. 300-500 words

Explain the concept of bartering-Explain whether bartering does-does not meet all of the functions of money.

Author Anna Schwartz writes this about money: “The U.S. money supply comprises currency—dollar bills and coins issued by the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury—and various kinds of deposits held by the public at commercial banks and other depository institutions such as savings and loans and credit unions.” (Schwartz, n.d) In this threaded discussion, complete […]

Describe how differences between world prices-domestic prices prompt exports-imports.

List and discuss several key facts about international trade. Define comparative advantage, and demonstrate how specialization and trade add to a nation’s output. Describe how differences between world prices and domestic prices prompt exports and imports. Analyze the economic effects of tariffs and quotas. Analyze the validity of the most frequently presented arguments for protectionism. […]

How have such countries navigated the last 18 months-Is their economic performance worse than those countries whose currencies float-If not, how come?

One of the things we learned about in class is the trilemma which states that if a country pegs its exchange rate to a base country’s currency and allows the free flow of capital in and out of the country, then it follows that the country’s interest rate will be the same as that of […]

Does this necessarily mean that the revenues earned by chip manufacturers will be up? Why-why not? Explain.

Micro/Macro Economics 1. In March 2020 (at the start of the pandemic) the US Energy Information Agency published a report with the headline “Oil market volatility is at an all-time high”. Using basic principles of demand and supply explain why oil prices tend to be so volatile and why it is not surprising that the […]