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60 second adventures in economics: The Impossible Trinity
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Impossible Trinity

...money flow in and out of their country without causing too much disruption. But there’s a problem when you try to do all of these at once. Say for example, the Eurozone tries to lower its interest rate to boost investment and reduce unemployment. Money flows out to earn higher interest rates elsewhere. Exchange rates drop, which causes inflation, so the Euro interest...
Learn with Start Up Loans
Money & Business

Learn with Start Up Loans

...businesses get off the ground and stay there...Find out more about The Open University's Business and Management courses and qualifications [British Business Bank logo] Start Up Loans is committed to helping UK business owners realise their business dreams. Whether that’s making a business idea a reality, or helping new businesses to......
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...business with the organisation required to cease trading, wind up the business and distribute the residual assets to creditors in accordance with their ranking. Alternatively, a liquidity crisis could result in a major restructuring of the financial base of the organisation – either through the taking on of new debt or through a new share issue. The way liquidity risk...
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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...money – through to households, businesses, nations and economic areas. Like all disciplines, cash flow has its own particular terminology, which you need to understand...Financial methods in environmental decisions: Cost - Everybody is familiar with the idea of cost. In this context it simply means any expenditure (or outflow of cash) resulting from an...
What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...money on repairing his shoes, and in so doing, supported the cobbler’s business. Similarly, if people do not spend money on drink, they will buy other products, and support other industries. We do not need to wreck windows or drinkers’ lives for the good of the economy. The Institute of Alcohol Studies’ new report, Splitting the Bill: Alcohol’s Impact on the...
Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...business model adopted by the IOCs has failed. They have to downsize, and many of their assets will have to be sold off. Above all, the corporate culture of these once-mighty conglomerates has to change. Although growing international pressure to take action on climate change and falling prices have together led to a decline in the IOCs’ fortunes, the rot set in many...
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...money, global trade and national policies...[EU Referendum economy] Economy Internal Market The Single Market is, for many, the EU’s biggest achievement - a success because it aimed just to promote member states’ economic efficiency, with no wider agenda for political integration. Promoted by the UK, with the symbolic start-date of 1992, the Single Market programme...
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...business cycle – just as it was when the Office of Budget Responsibility was first set up in 2010. Otherwise there will always be too much pressure to under-fund public investment. John Maloney, associate professor of economics, University of Exeter The economy has turned down, only slightly, but the growth forecasts are down for the next four years too, and that does...