All Posts Tagged With: "united states"
Wealth Distribution Around the World
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Thu, Dec 24 2009 | 1 Comment
This map basically means that the lighter color, the more equally the wealth in the country is distributed. You can tell where the most people suffer due to the darker shades of green seen throughout the map.
The countries with the biggest gap between poverty and wealth are the South American nations and some central to southern African nations.
Canada, Australia, much of Europe, and even some African countries all have fairly good wealth distribution throughout.
The United States falls into the same category as Russia, India, Italy, England, Portugal, and Uzbekistan to name a few.
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Tags: african countries, UNITE, united states
Shock and Scam advertising may disgust you, but it works unfortunately
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Dec 23 2009 | 1 CommentThere are advertisements that are meant to warm your heart, to inform you, deceive you, and most of all get you to buy something you may not have otherwise bought. However, there are also shock advertisements that are meant to get people to talk.
Across the social sites this morning, everyone is talking about this new World Wildlife Foundation ad that compares the 9/11 attacks on the United States to the Tsunami in 2005. The consensus on the ad is that it was done in poor taste and it’s also a scam ad.
Scam ads have been around for awhile due to the fact that they are typically put on by advertisers and marketing firms that want to win awards. To win an award, the ad has to be published somewhere. In the case of the World Wildlife Foundation ad, it was published in a small Brazilian newspaper. It was also a print version of the ad seen above.
As long as awards for creativity are given out to ad agencies, ads like this one will be seen across the world and it will continue to shock the public when it leaks out to those who were really never supposed to see them.
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Tags: newspaper, disgust, advertisers
The Pitch – Are you worried by the drop in average home price?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Oct 23 2009 | 1 Comment
Does the average cost of a house worry you at all?
Question:
The average price for a home in the United States dropped once again. Does this worry you at all?
Answer:
As a homeowner, yes. I used to not be worried because I could still see the prices in my neighborhood increasing, but not anymore. I think that once the prices in my area level out some, I’ll be less worried. No one wants to lose money in their house. That would go against the point of owning a home, I thought.
I’m sure I’m not as worried as people in other parts of the country though.
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Tags: owning a home, Money, neighborhood
The Job Market is Quite Tough.
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Sat, Oct 10 2009 | 1 Comment
There are millions out of work right now and there are fewer and fewer jobs available for those who are looking or work. Data that was released by the government on Friday showed that the recession is worse than it has been since the beginning of the recession right now.
It’s only expected to get worse because companies are still not hiring and most have no plans on creating jobs to start hiring.
It is so difficult to be unemployed right now because there are about 6.3 people applying for every one job opening. In comparison, when the recession officially began in 2007, there were only 1.7 workers competing for every one job opening in the united States.
Since the beginning of the decade, the largest amount of people who were competing for one job opening was in July 2003, when 2.8 people were looking for every one job opening.
From the beginning of the recession, employers have cut over 7 million jobs. Even though there are fewer and fewer job cuts with each job and unemployment report, there aren’t any jobs being created. Job creation is essential for the health of the economy.
So, people with jobs are feeling a bit more safe when it comes to their jobs. Job security can be priceless, but for those that were laid off or have found themselves unemployed, it is still quite difficult to find work.
It is, of course, more difficult to find work in some areas than others. Jobs are being created in some areas of the country, but there are other parts of the country that barely have any jobs available and are losing them much faster than they’re making them. The more industrial a town is, particularly in this recession, the more that town or county hurts it seems.
Hopefully, the job market will get a bit better sometime soon.
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Tags: jobs, recession, united states
Who has their hand in Robert Fisk’s pocket?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Thu, Oct 08 2009 | 0 Comments
Earlier this week there were reports coming out that Arab oil sheiks, the Russians, and the Chinese were all conspiring to stop using the United States dollar to set the value of a barrel of oil. Of course, if this were to really happen it would really hurt the value of a dollar across the globe.
Remember last week when I talked about what happens when someone give a false story to the press? That’s what is going on this week and it’s causing a serious decline in the value of a dollar and a serious increase in the cost of gold.
Even though someone as high up as the Saudi central bank head and U.S. officials have tried to bunk the rumors, the dollar has definitely taken a hit this week.
The website drudgereport.com quickly amplified the impact of the story with a headline atop the site: ARAB STATES LAUNCH SECRET MOVES WITH CHINA, RUSSIA, FRANCE TO STOP USING DOLLAR FOR OIL TRADING …
“You read that story, and you do two things: You sell the hell out of dollars and you buy gold,” said Les Alperstein, president of the financial research firm Washington Analysis. “The story has a lot of credibility, with some caveats.”
So, the fall of the dollar could be the key as to why the price of gold is now at record highs. At $1,050 a try ounce, investors are selling the dollar and buying gold just as Les Alperstein said.
No one knows who exactly leaked the fake information to the press. Many are thinking it had something to do with gold traders. Of course, your suspicions typically turn to the source who stands to make the most from the information, however false it may be.
Prior to the recession, the value of the dollar would not be as damaged by an article such as this one. However, with how poor our economy is doing and also how watered down the value of our dollar has become, it is quite the hit to the value of the greenback.
Robert Fisk wrote the original article and he listed very vague sources in his article. No one has been able to locate the exact sources and even people and administration from the banks he claimed gave him the information in the article have said that the story is completely false.
So, who’s got their hand in Robert Fisk’s pocket?
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Tags: recession, oil trading, united states dollar
