Gravity Model

The model is supposed to bring renewed prosperity to the United States but it brought more inequality and stripped safety net programs that actually helped most Americans. This lack of assistance means that struggling people are struggling even more and they have less money to spend and to put back into the economy. Since the creation of the Better Business Climate model, government spending on food stamps, unemployment insurance, and other social programs has been cut as

In the early 80’s home sales fell by half, which meant sales and permits for building home also drop to record lows. The housing market experienced the lowest mortgage rates that could allow affordability to anyone. This is acknowledged by the National Association of Homebuilder that the projection at least a 1.76 million level in 1984. Of course, housing prices, net cost of home buying, and more couples marrying help to determine that increased. In addition, lower inflation led to more stable household prices.

This affected the nation significantly, as the population decreases, not much children would grow up to work for the nation, thus creating less income and therefore not increasing the nation’s GDP as much as it can. The numbers of immigrants accepted into Canada dropped to less than 12,000 in the 1935 from 169,000 in 1929, thats over 1400% loss in immigrants. The amount of immigrants accepted into Canada never rose above 17,000 for the remainder of the decade. The number of deportations, however, rose from fewer than 2,000 people in 1929 to more than 7,600 in just under four years. In addition to the deportations, approximately 30,000 immigrants were forcibly returned to their original countries over the course of the decade, this was predominately due to illness or unemployment.

This statement is supported by the fact that the days inventory held for stoves has dropped over the past five years from 146 days in year 3 to 114 days in year 7. These reductions have allowed for the reduction of their days in accounts payable from 51 all the way down to 11. With this data, Massachusetts Stove Company is in a good financial position in terms of liquidity and

Corporal punishment was banned in New Zealand in 2008 and according to Nationmaster.com, “New Zealand has 26% less crime than the United States” (Nationmaster.com). Similarly, the United States has 333 time more murders than New Zealand and other crimes as well. Since, corporal discipline leads to aggression, when physical discipline is outlawed crime rates go down. Which is why in New Zealand the crime rate is significantly lower than the United States of America. Similarly, 51 countries have banned corporal punishment and have seen a decrease in crime rates throughout the years.

Vonage’s cash position appears to be improving. However, the higher cash balance shown in 2007 did not mean that the company was doing well. It only showed the company did not make any profitable investments that year. As a result of not making any investments, they held on to higher cash balances during those years. The company’s net cash flow and net income both improved in 2008 when they made investments along with reducing debt that resulted in improving their cash flow.

It is still shrinking daily. Some may say that it is true that middle class isn't bringing much in but it due to the stock market crash in 2009 but it has been growing since then. However this is not true. Middle class families are shrinking to the lower class and poverty line America. Brookings Institution defined this group as “including those with income between 100 and 250% of the federal poverty level, or between $18,871 and $47,177 for a family of three, according to the current numbers”.

Because of this the New Deal helped to significantly lower the unemployment levels. “The New Deal reduced unemployment from the very high level of 1933, 12,8 million, to 7.7 million in 1937” Even though there were successes to the economic side of the New Deal there were also many thing that were insignificant in other parts of the economy. For example even though unemployment fell “ As late as 1941 the unemployed still numbered six million” and it remained very high up until World War two started and the unemployment problem almost disappears. This demonstrated that unemployment was still extremely high and no huge change had been made. The New Deal also did nothing to assist the halt in technological advances in farming that causes many farm workers to be replaced by machines.

Currently, however, severe poverty has disappeared in most industrialized countries because of free-market capitalism. Between 1990 and 2010, poverty rates fell by half in developing countries, from 43 percent to 21 percent — a reduction of almost 1 billion people. Compared to the average rate of poverty reduction throughout history, this is an impressive improvement.” - In industrialized countries, extreme poverty was normally. However, now, in most industrialized countries with capitalism, extreme poverty has disappeared. Poverty rates have fallen from 43 to 21 percent, almost 1 billion people less

Fortunately, throughout the period 1998-2002 many improvements took place that facilitated the reduction of poverty and hunger in the developing countries in Asia such as China (2). The improvements were, as recorded, an increase in overall incomes by 21 per cent, which led to a decline in the number of people with extreme poverty by an estimated 130 million, as well as a decrease in child and maternal mortalities (1). However, these developments are insignificant compared to the promises made in the agreement. Therefore, this essay argues that the international collaborations have failed to improve the situation of the affected countries in