Corporate finance experts Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, and Bradford Jordan have teamed up for the eighth edition of their book...

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It is rather crude to suggest that the United States, or any world economy for that matter, could end its...

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Anyone who has ever been caught printing counterfeit money knows how serious the Government is about preventing this sort of...

Ever since British economist John Maynard Keynes introduced his economic theories in the 1930s, there has been an ongoing debate...

Politicians from both sides of the aisle frequently speak of the unemployment rate as an important economic indicator. And indeed...

We all know of the existence of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) thanks to the tax returns we file every...

Where politics and economics meet, we often hear terms such as 'Keynesian economics', 'Keynesian theory', and the 'Keynesian model' bandied...

The U.S. monetary system, as with most others, was built on the principle of hard currency. However, the definition of...

Las Vegas was not always the investor-owned entertainment venue it is today. Prior to the 1970s, most of the valuable...

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Are you familiar with how the U.S. income tax system works? Do you understand that it is a progressive system...

Government and independent economists use a minimum of 12 economic indicators to help them determine how the U.S. economy is...

Whenever an individual buys securities, he or she must consider what is known as face value. Unlike the face value...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is now in the process of implementing its own quantitative easing program modeled after what...

We hear a lot about government debt, also known as the public debt, during election season. However, once the votes...

Take a look at your next pay stub. There should be a heading labeled FICA along with a specific dollar...

Every night on the evening news, you see numbers relating to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the S&P...