.... (GBE) and deregulation of the financial market. The main roles that the Australian government plays today are to ensure: 1) The efficient and even distribution of income (though CSSB, tax) 2) Provide a limited range of goods and services (Aust post) 3) General economic management through macro and micro economic policies. In 96/97 the CAD fell to $20.9bn from the $27bn blowout during 95/96. This was largely due to a fall in domestic spending which lead to a slight rise in national savings. Inflation remained low and fell between the RBA's 2-3% ta .....

.... for debt of any significant amount was a war. By 1900 this had been reduced to under $1 Billion. By 1919, the end of World War I, the debt had climbed to $25.5 Billion. In each of the following years the debt was reduced, and by 1930 stood at $18.1 Billion. With the collapse of Wall Street in 1929, the country (debt history: 1850 to 1950) fell into the Great Depression, which lasted until 1940. At that time the debt had climbed to $51 Billion. By the end of World War II the debt was $269 Billion. Again the government worked to reduce the debt, and by 1949 it was $2 .....

.... States, taxes on capital gains should be eliminated. Members of Congress once considered a reduction in the capital gains tax rate from 28% to 19.8%. Combined with indexation, which is , reducing the capital gains tax by any amount would be a vital pro-growth step taken by Congress. However, given the fickle and high risk nature of investments and entrepreneurships, and the importance of maintaining a competitive economy in a global environment, capital gains should be exempt from taxation altogether. A zero percent capital gains tax would attract entrepreneurial risk tak .....

.... both cases, monetary policy has been blamed for contributing to sinking of these economic Titanics. With this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to explore the failure of Japanese monetary policy to deal with its present economic crisis. Background and the Problem During the 1980s, policy makers and economists throughout the world envied Japan as a successful model of a strong global economy. Real GDP growth ranged from 4%-6% from 1984 until the economic bubble burst in 1993. The Yen was regarded as one of the world’s leading currencies. Interest rates ranged from 4.5 .....

.... unit volume growth, new factories coming into production, shifts in process and product mix, and in the fourth quarter of 1995, by costs associated with unusually high reserves related to inventories of certain purchased components. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 1994 included the impact of a $475 million charge, primarily to cost of sales, to cover replacement costs, replacement material and an inventory record related to a divide problem in the floating point unit of the Pentium microprocessor. As a result of the above factors, the gross margin percentage was 52 .....

.... from one another. Also under this system, there is no unemployment. Because the government owns the means of production, it is able to regulate the employment of its citizens. This system also provides equal health care to all, no matter what one’s profession. Marxism recognizes the importance of every life as a part of the work force and provides measures to keep all its citizens healthy. Probably the best component of Marxism is that the economic systems would only do what it saw as best for the society as a whole. The system proposed by Karl Marx places the good of so .....

.... the company's plans to handle its growth rate. After DACOM reviewed Hydrel's functional areas and the desires of the top-level management, they concluded that the order management and inventory control process had to be redesigned to meet the demands. Then they comprised three teams: process, quality, and information. But before the three teams could work separately, they had to go through a process to determine if the team members were on the right team, and if they could work together. So each of the three teams reviewed employee personalities using the Pearson Pe .....

.... events leading up to the construction of the EMU; the emergence, objectives and tasks of the new system of central banking (formally known as the European System of Central Banks); the various qualifications for joining the Union; the differing opinions about the currency integration; and to top it all off, included is an outline of the draft designs for the new Euro banknotes. To begin our journey on the road to the EMU, we begin with a brief review of the history leading up to its establishment. In June 1998, the European Council (EC) established a mission of realizing an ec .....