history of US system of economy, SWOT analysis, Current economis situation, probloms regarding US system?
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Well the US has a capitalist system, which is unbelievably more productive than the typical, say, communist system. Some believe us to be having trouble at the moment, to which I would reply that we are too busy paying for all the communist countries, or islamic or muslim or anything but capitalist countries, to get back on their feet after years of killing themselves with their lousy systems, and we aren't worried nearly as much about improving things at home. But one fact remains, without the US, the world would have a serious problem when it comes to finding people to buy their goods. The US is one of the largest, if not the largest, consumer around.\n\nWhat's a SWOT, anyway? Maybe you could reformulate your question to make it somewhat more grammatically correct and readable.
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It went through a tremendous transformation.  The lies of constant production resulting in needed constant obsolescence were largely developed then.  "A healthy economy" became defined as the rich getting richer.\n\nEngland and Europe ended owing American huge war debts and since their infrastructure was largely damaged Americans could sell almost anything they produced for several years after the war.
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Try cia.gov I did a whole economics report off of this website.  It gives the economic breakdown of each country and is very complete.  Good luck!
2012
To find the economic situation of any country, the best resource, in my opinion, is the Economist's 'Country Briefings' section:\nhttp://www.economist.com/countries\n\nIt has political and economic information, forecasts, statistics, and recent articles covering what's new and important in each country.  I have never found a better research resource than this.
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What type of economic system is utilized (market, command, mixed, traditional)? \nWHATEVER SUITS THEM.  IT IS SUPPOSEDLY MARKET DRIVEN, BUT ONLY IF IT SUITS THE FRENCH, AND THERE IS A LOT OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY (MOSTLY ILLEGAL)\n•Is it a rich or poor country? \nTHE POOR PARTS ARE VERY POOR\n•Is unemployment a problem in this country? \nNOT AS BAD AS IT SHOULD BE BECAUSE OF OUTDATED LABOUR LAWS AND GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES (MOSTLY ILLEGAL)\n•What are the natural resources? \nSOME COAL, AGRICULTURE\n•Is there a connection between its natural resources and the products it makes? \nONLY AGRICULTURAL\n•What cultural aspects are there (religion and language)? \nNOMINALLY CATHOLIC, SPEAK FRENCH\n•What is the present relationship that this country has with the United States? PROBABLY BEST DESCRIBED AS POLITE MUTUAL HATRED
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The economy is getting ready to crash.  Congress has enacted several laws in the last couple years that are having a direct effect on our future economy.\n\nIt is now legal to charge nearly 40% interest on credit cards (that used to be called USARY, but now, it's called first step to bankruptcy) Our interest rates have gone through the roof, the fees financial institutions are allowed to charge are breaking us, with the rise in prices for gas, heating & insurance, and the falling home values, there are going to be many, many people out of jobs in the next year.\n\nAnd meanwhile, what are elected officials worrying about?  Crap, gay rights, abortions, their own paychecks, retirements and health care.  Sure as hell not us.\n\nAnd I would hazard a guess that there are very few people who own their homes outright.  In fact, many people owe more for their homes than they can sell them for.\n\nWe are in for a rude awakening my friend.  \n\nWhile we continue to sue and tax American companies out of business, we sit back and wonder where are all the jobs going.  And don't tell me "service industry" that line only works if there are people with money to buy the services.  Here in Metro Detroit and Michigan, even McDonalds is starting to lay off.\n\nAs my company does business with other companies all over the country I can tell you this, we are headed for a serious recession.  Many small industrial companies are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.  70% of the jobs in this country are directly related to small business.  While our local and state governments give all the tax breaks to the large corporations for the benefit of the unions and their foreign suppliers they now buy from,  the rest of us are drowning and losing our incomes.  Yet our cost of living has shot through the roof.\n\nBelieve me, or not, it's coming and it's going to be as ugly as it was in the early 80's.  History is repeating itself and no one seems to notice.\n\nGood luck to us.
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You should try www.oecd.org, www.worldbank.org and www.imf.org
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Here is a quote from a letter of a delegate to a United Nations conference on trade and Employment Nove 27,1947.  It sounded reasonable then and is still reasonable today, dont you think?\n\n"Economics , more than any factor, shapes the destiny of nations and the history of human projection...... The path of civilization lies with the development of trade between one country and another.\n\nThe growing human wants with attendant complexities urged nations to seek out contacts with nations near and far to develop trade and commerce on a mutually advantageous basis.\n-------M.A. Ishapani\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nIf you will ignore the complex words, it all boils down to this. our island have plenty of potatoes tbis year.  The island in front of us, I heard that they have plenty of pigs and the thier neighbor has coffee. Let us trade some of the potatoes for pigs and coffee. \nWe have been doing early  commerce like this , and it is called bartering. Soon after that , we traded with currency, debts and other forms of payment.\n\nToday, we have well established laws and models of commercial trading of goods and jobs all over the world.  \n\nWe are in the process of grappling with international trade rules and laws to govern trade via internet.
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First, what high skill jobs are we gaining? The last report I read about job creation in the US said the complete opposite. Next, breadlines exist or haven't you heard the US has a homeless problem. Also, gas prices are going to continue to go up and not everyone can afford it. Finally, your last statement about loans and grants betrays an ignorance of economics that answers your own question. \nWhat is the trade deficit in the US? \nWhat is the average savings per American?\nHave wages kept pace with cost of living?\n\nI congratulate you on earning your degree. What kind of job do you now have?\n\nYou have chosen one of the fastest growing industries in the US. The criminal justice industry. Does that tell you anything about the direction this country is headed?
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It would take a whole course to give you a comprehensive response. You might consider signing up for one at a local college.\n\nMeanwhile, in a nutshell, here's what's happening at this time in the economy: The Fed is always concerned with keeping economic growth at an acceptably high level and keeping the rate of price inflation at an acceptably low level.\n\nWhen the economy gets cooking, the money supply expands (that's actually what inflation is). The business community spends more to satisfy their higher level of business activity, and consumers feel rich so they spend more.\n\nThe US economy has been on a five-year expansion. It's reaching the level where inflation is becoming a serious problem. So the Fed has been raising interest rates to try to keep growth from getting too fast. But consumers have borrowed huge, huge amounts, including in mortgages, so if the Fed "slams on the brakes" too hard by raising interest rates too much, the risk is that a severe recession or worse could set in, triggered by that mountain of debt.\n\nMeanwhile, other economies, especially China and India, have been growing at very high rates. They are gobbling up all of the commodities they can find - oil and gas, lumber, base metals, etc. That adds to inflation.\n\nWe are in the midst of a commodities boom. Mining and energy stocks have come a long way up but have a long way still to go. Many companies have done poorly for several years because they don't operate well in a higher-inflation environment (their costs go up faster than they can raise prices).\n\nThat's a lot of information in one short message. As I said, look into taking an economics course. I was a chemist once, but enrolled in business school and loved every minute of it because of the fascinating and useful things I learned.\n\nBest of success.
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You've tapped a very complicated subject my friend - I think all of macro economics is vague and all of the smartest economists don't agree on what is going on... So I don't think it is intentionally vague - any more than the rest of the economic field....  Also China owning US debt began when they became part of the WTO (I believe this may have happened on Bush's watch, but was started by Clinton - i.e. not a republican/democrat thing.) I don't know how easy it will be to find - but seems like to answer your specific question you would want to understand the ownership of US treasury securities.  If you are just curious and want to know about this stuff - China does hold a large portion of our debt and that is because we spend more money than we have and they save more money than they make.  We have trade deficit with China because we want to buy their goods, because they are cheap.  In the past they have been more than happy to lend us the money to do so.  But if we don't watch it, our creditors are going to start saying no.  The opinion of congress right now is that this is China's fault and that they are a currency manipulator who should let their currency appreciate.
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You should be able to research this by typing "History of United States Currency" into Google or Yahoo search.
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Gross Domestic Product components\nThe measure of the USA's output of goods and services is calculated by the Commerce Department using the following items: \n\nPersonal consumption \nGovernment expenditures \nPrivate investment \nInventory growth \nTrade balance \nThe GDP is calculated using a "chain-weighted" method. The system is recognizes business has been globalized, deregulation is increasing business activity and relative prices for goods change quickly and dramatically. The "chain" system also recognizes that output for computers, telecommunications equipment and health services is growing much faster than other parts of the economy. The "chain" method forces the government to recalibrate the relative prices of these goods - and their relative importance to the economy - every year.\n\nGDP can be expressed as:\n\nGDP = private consumption + government + investment + net exports \n(or simply GDP = C + G + I + NX)
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I'm sure you could probably find it on wikipedia.com or something.\n\nBut to 4A:\n\nThe Great Depression resulted in a more secure way to organize the U.;S. economy in the furture.  Like they have to check to make sure stocks are worth what they are selling for or something like that.  People would get all of their money back if there was another depression instead of totally losing it all.
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In my opinion...\n\nI can't think of any pros for the new world order.  First you have to ask what exactly is the new world order.  The people who are shaping the world, telling us what we want and need, the ones who control the doctrinal system are in it for the money.  The new world order is a large economic game of us vrs. them.  By "us" I mean the top 5 percent of the population.  Under terms like NAFTA or CAFTA american business is trying to pry open lucrative trade while keeping american exports expensive and well tariffed.  Also, american corporations over the past few decades have fought very hard to force down the living wage of U.S. citizens.  The system is unsustainable without mass poverty doing production on one side and heavy consumerism on the other.  I fear that the disparity between profit, wage loss and consumerism might trigger slavery.  Why not, we are already being taught to hate and live in fear.\n\nEconomic aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was originally set up to help rebuild war torn countries economies after WWII.  Today the World Bank and IMF lend money to countries to help them out of economic problems.  But, the loans come with lots of strings attached which often leads to the complete economic destruction of the country.  This is achieved by forcing the country to open up to free trade and also by forcing the country to privatise it's resources and utilities.  Of course the whole loan is backed up by the US treasury who makes a killing and it's the american companies that get to go in and buy up the recently "for sale" resources and utilities.\n\nThe NWO really has nothing to do with democracy, just economics.\n\nlong winded, sorry...
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The US economy has a history of cyclical highs and lows.  Most of the others were called 'Financial panics'.  See the bottom of this wikipedia page for more:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873\n\nThese lows are charecterized by job loss, banking failures, forclosures, loss of property value and bankruptcies.\n\nIn addition, there have been several recessions, which were like mini-depressions.  In the 1980's sections of the country had housing-value crashes and unemployment was high.\n\nSocial Security was put in place because people who are elderly when a economic downturn strikes can see their lifelong savings wiped out when they have no means to earn it back.  The old-fahioned word for retirement during a economic downturn can be found in the census records: pauper.
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These books will be most helpful:\n\nhttp://www.mises.org/store/Austrian-Perspective-on-the-History-of-Economic-Thought-2-volume-set-P273C0.aspx