Self-Regulated Markets as Safe as State-Regulated Markets, Study Says
Any time stock market shifts lead to widespread losses, public demand for regulatory measures grows. Tighter regulatory control is probably not the financial panacea the public imagines, however,...
View ArticleEconomic, Gender Inequality Among College Graduates
Studies released in December 2011 showed that the difference in college completion rates between students from high-income and from low-income families grew dramatically in the past fifty years. This...
View ArticleAmericans Propose Funding Research as Economic Solution
These days, it seems nearly everyone has a plan to improve the U.S. economy. Yet what average Americans deem important to solving the nation’s problems–especially when it comes to health care–appears...
View ArticleHedge Fund Managers Using Insider Information for Personal Gain [Study]
When it comes to high finance, most people approve of stock brokers and investment fund managers having a personal stake in the funds they invest as an incentive to act in the best interests of...
View ArticleRisk Tolerance Linked to Age and State of Economy [Study]
In the current troubled United States economy, many investors have become more cautious about investing in the stock market. Often, this caution leads to unwise investment strategies, according to a...
View ArticleMarket Exchange Rules Responsible for Wealth Concentration and How Physics...
Amid continuing concerns about the concentration of wealth in a tiny minority of investors, Brazilian physicists have borrowed principles from their own discipline to explain the phenomenon and suggest...
View ArticleThe Global Stock Market’s Susceptibility To Change [Study]
A new study, written by Dave Berger of Oregon State University and Kuntara Pukthuanthong of San Diego State University, may give fiscal policymakers a valuable tool for assessing the likelihood of...
View ArticleClinton declares energy management to be “good economics”
Energy management refers to the process of scrutinizing, managing, and saving energy in a building or institution. This typically involves measuring your energy consumption and looking for options to...
View ArticleIs the Student Loan Debt Bubble the Next Economic Crisis?
The Occupy Movement’s protests put the issue of mounting debt from private and federal student loans at the forefront of the economic debate in the U.S. early in 2012. The protests occurred...
View Article3 Reasons to Consider Investing in Silver
Precious metals offer enormous investment potential when purchased correctly, and of all of the popular precious metals, silver offers some of the best advantages for serious investors. Here are a few...
View ArticleInternational monetary systems
Monetary systems are a set of policies and institutions used by the government to control money supply in an economy during inflation and to provide additional money to the economy in case of a...
View ArticleSpeculation
Speculation can be described as the act of buying and selling securities specifically with the hope that one will benefit from price changes. Speculation is often considered a huge gamble because there...
View ArticleContract for Differences
In the stock market, a Contract for difference is a unique kind of contract between two parties where one party undertakes to pay the other party an amount of money equal to the difference in prices of...
View ArticleStock Broker
A stock broker is perhaps one of the most important institutions in the stock market. Although there are a number of roles that stock brokers play, one can say that the key role is to buy and sell...
View ArticleOligopoly
There exist different structures within the market based on the number of buyers and sellers in that market and based on the relationship that exists between them. Oligopoly is one of the market...
View ArticleNational Debt
The national debt is simply the total amount owed by the central government. The national debt will include all the government liabilities including all goods and services lendered / purchased by the...
View ArticleFactors of Production
In economics our main aim is to manage the limited means of production to try and satisfy our unlimited wants. To do this we use the production curve/function to amplify, create and transfer the raw...
View ArticleLand(Economics)
In economics, land is one of the three factors of production according to the classical economists which involves all the natural resources that can be used in the production process. Note that the...
View ArticleClassical economic
Classical economics is regarded as the father and the first modern economic school of thought advanced by a group of economist in between eightieth and the nineteenth centuries. The major contributors...
View ArticleEconomic Growth and its Indicators
Economic Growth: This is a term that is very often used in economics to show how much capita has increased from one economic year to another. The economic growth rate is mostly determined in percentage...
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