Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Questions

1- Do you think that there is a connection between the financial crisis and corruption in the world?
2- What is one of most important consequences of the financial crisis?
3- What can we do to avoid such crisis in the world?
4-Do you think that we already know exactly what cause the crisis?
5- Do you think that there is a lot of secrets behind the crisis?
6- What is your suggestion for improving the financial system in order to prevent corruption and crisis?
7- Do you think that globalization one of the causes of major crisis in our financial system?
8- What do you think about the idea of money and wealth?
9- Is there any thing that can predict a new crisis?
10- what is the most important thing that we can learn from what happen ?

Questions by Elea Ortega

1- What do you think about Barack Obama? do you think his doing a good job or a bad job?

2- Do you think President Barack Obama's healthcare plan is better than the previous healthcare plan?

3- Do you think creating more jobs will hurt or help the economy?

4- Would you prefer to put gas in your car TO GO TO WORK THAN TO BUY GROCERIES for your household.

5- Do you think if Central America OR any other country agreed to loan the U.S. about one billion dollars would help?

6-Do you think every rich person in the world should give a certain amount to the government?

7- Do you think if movie makers stop using high technology would help the government save more money?

8- Do you think if tuition for collage decreased and students borrow a less amount of loans would help the economy?

9-Do you think if the government made a law stating "Families are permitted to have only two children." would help the economy? Less kids, less amount of money spent.

10- With the economy the way it is, do you think collage students have a chance of making
"good" money in the work force?

Monday, September 20, 2010

Internet Articles by Elea Ortega

Source #1 Type of Job Loss and its Impact on Decision Control, Mastery, and Depression: Comparison of Employee and Company-Stated Reasons

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=9771ee01-6582-44aa-b652-3212d9a2c345%40sessionmgr104


Talks about the jobs and how constantly people lost their jobs and how this becomes a problem to both of the person, to the person that loss its jobs and for the main enterprises itself and many more facts about the loss of the jobs.

Source # 2 OPPORTUNISTIC INFORMAL BANKRUPTCY: HOW BAPCPA MAY FAIL TO MAKE WFALTHY

DEBTORS PAY UP

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=221121b8-4084-400e-b679-056e241e2c06%40sessionmgr110

This article is related to our first consequence, bankruptcy. This article contains about the main concept of the bankruptcy and tells that is not one of the most common problems of the financial crisis, but it's not the only one.

Source #3 The New Bankruptcy Act and its Impact on Family Law: An Update

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=105&sid=b6cda1dc-de75-46f7-a736-d6bb53d7dbbd%40sessionmgr114


This article talks about the impact that the bankruptcy has on the families, such as once the bankrupt is in the families problems, comes to show up, and then the family is split it.


Source #4 Federal Bankruptcy Law and State Sovereign Immunity

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=119&sid=274d796d-ae8f-40b0-9ecc-71d56e6702e6%40sessionmgr114

This article focuses more in the political economy together with the bankruptcy and how its regulated.

Source #5 AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY CRISIS.

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=dccb7786-2138-4b54-b183-167b99c7f209%40sessionmgr104

this article talks about how the consumer fells in the crisis of the bankruptcy, this article explain in detail about how the consumer is immersed in this issue and talks about the credit cars, how the consumer fell in this seriously problem, how then it becomes a financial shock in their families and how this could take them to the divorce etc.

Source #6 Enterprise Bankruptcy Law of the People’s Republic of China (for Trial Implementation, 1986)

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=1297a10e-5da7-4882-a7d9-7b37c116ea9c%40sessionmgr114


This article contains about even though in huge enterprises in China, the bankruptcy happens something that people sometimes do no expect from massive companies but it happens.

Source #7 BANKRUPTCY FIRE SALES

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=6250067a-02bd-4e2d-b5cb-1dd0b8a98d9c%40sessionmgr112

Reading this article you can understand how the relations between the sales and the bankrupt, it also contains graphics about the situations.


Source #8 Factors Associated with Hospital Bankruptcies: A Political and Economic Framework

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=0fd1b325-98d5-480e-a439-80b58b5d7bd7%40sessionmgr110

This article talks about bankrupt in the hospital, yes believe it or not? There is bankrupt in the hospitals too, which all come across with the economics and the whole financial problem.

Source #9 The Delphi ‘Bankruptcy’ The Continuation of Class War by Other Means

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&hid=119&sid=ca846958-ba48-42ff-bace-fcc5aacbac3c%40sessionmgr114

This article talks about nothing more and nothing less about the huge company general motors. Delphi Corporation is the giant auto parts supplier spun of f by General motors, even this huge company suffered bankruptcy.

Source #10 Poverty and Local Governments: Economic Development and Community Service Provision in an Era of Decentralization

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=119&sid=614d33f4-18f5-429f-a7f3-4d2619a695dc%40sessionmgr114

This article talks about the poverty and how the governments always take all the money and talks also about the bad distribution of the economy and that's when corruption comes out and that's the reason too, of why there is poor people.


Sources for the solutions by Elea Ortega



For source #1 : refers to my solution #1 Create more Jobs

I found I book called Jobs aren't enough by Iversen, Roberta Rehner, that contains a lot of beneficial imformation about how there's lack of jobs worldwide and also talks about how this situation affect the income of the families.


Source # 2

When I found this book I said "Oh my God, this is jackpot because is such a good book" its related to a lot of the causes and solutions that I listed, for example it contains about the bankrupt, talks about the problem of the lack of oil and how it becomes a problem so quickly for the economic. This books also contains strategies of how to survive in hard times with the economic.

America for sale by the Author Corsi, Jerome R.



Source #3 The complete energy-saving home improvement guide : save up to 50% of your home fuel cost / edited by James W. Morrison
this book that I found is related to my solution #5 that talks about the energy saving, and more than that is a guide that helps us how to improve this important issue.



Source #4 A kind of living : a practical guide to home food production and energy saving / by Katie Thear
This is another book that I found that could be really helpful to my solution number five that contains about how we can change our way of living, from being people that really throw again all or energy to people that really live their life saving energy.


Source #5 Poverty and power : the problem of structural inequality by Edward Royce
I found this book which is really good because on the second part one of sub themes of the book is The economy system and poverty and another sub theme also talks about The Economics of poverty, which connects the poverty with the financial crisis.


Source #6 Analysis of multidimensional poverty : theory and case studies / Louis-Marie Asselin ; contributions from Jean-Bosco Ki, Tuan Anh
This book treats about the poverty in some countries in the south Asian countries.

Source # 7 TEACHING WITH POVERTY IN MIND : WHAT BEING POOR DOES TO KIDS' BRAINS AND WHAT SCHOOLS CAN DO ABOUT I
With a very interesting statement this book treat the poverty since a social point of view.

Source # 8 Education for the end of poverty : implementing all the Millennium Development Goals / Matthew Clarke and Simon Feeny, editors
This source treats about how the poverty is seen in the developing countries. The point of view of the education domains the topic in this book.

Source # 9 Child poverty in America today / edited by Barbara A. Arrighi and David J. Maume ; introduction by Diana Pearce
Poverty from a social perspective. Family and society, the poverty seen with
social eyes is what you going to find in this book.

Source # 10 Poverty, gender and migration / editors, Sadhna Arya, Anupama Rom
The migration is one of the consequences of the poverty. This book treats how the migration and legal or illegal migration are related to the poverty.

Sources for the consequences

"The financial crisis" : One year later. A discussion on lessons of the financial crisis. A group af authors (in Western Europe)

"Financial crisis: Lessons and opportunities for international
Political Economy", Mosley , leyna.

These two books present a rabge of solutions for the financial crisis. They present a geat debate for the corrution problem in the world and links that connect corruption and crisis in our modern economy.

"Breaking the bad Habits", Press of University of Chicago
This book present all that we have to do in order to solve our problem but the authors present the consequences in a clear way that we can understand the gravity of the problem.

Sources for the causes:

In the process of solving the financial crisis and corruption problem, we have some sources that we can use for better understanding this two problems:

The director, editions April 2010, 2010 volume 63 no .8.
In this magazine it's adressed the big issue of the financial crisis and the problem of transparency in governments all over the world.

American Economic Journal, Macroeconomics volume 2, number 3
This magazine gives expalnations about mechanisms that we should use in order to solve some liquidity problems in the modern world with a great interpretation of causes that lead the world in the worst crisis of the history.

Solutions

If we really want to solve the financial crisis and the corruption, we will have to come up with innovative solutions:
1) Reduce the power of some Multinational
2) Reduce the dependance of the world economy
3)Reduce the power of some States in the world economy
4) Reduce the developpement of the globalization
5) Control in an efficience way the financial market
6) Control the greedy of the financial market
7) Rebuild the capitalism
8) evaluate risk in some rich countries in the same way that we do for poor country.
9 ) Reducing the use of the Fiscal paradise around the world
10) Control the hot money