Prior to the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the trend in managing business inventories throughout most sectors of the economy had gravitated towards what’s known as “just in time,” meaning that smaller levels of stock were maintained that provided just enough product to meet demand. The goal was to receive merchandise just as it was […]
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Inflation is upon us, and it won’t be going away very soon, echoes the sentiment in Washington D.C. as the Federal Reserve sets out to combat it. Whenever inflation passes above 4% and unemployment falls below 4%, the U.S. economy has gone through a recession, as per Lawrence Summers, Harvard professor and former Treasury Secretary.
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Since Vladimir Putin became president of Russia in 2000, he has been obsessed with how he is portrayed in the Russian media. He purportedly would routinely spend evenings carefully watching how the media covered him personally as well as his actions and policies. From the early days, he took steps to place Kremlin control over
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The most recent of a spate of shootings in the United States took place in the small, southwestern town of Uvalde, Texas, where nineteen elementary school children and two teachers were senselessly murdered on May 24, 2022. The gunman was a teenager who bought military grade firearms and as many as 350 rounds of ammunition
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The era of easy money is coming to an end thanks to a combination of geopolitical events that have spurred a wild rush of inflation. Central banks in many parts of the world are already beginning, or are set to begin, tightening cycles, designed to quash this inflation. The demand for housing has held up
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Investors as well as central bankers have been lulled into complacency by forty years of controlled inflation coupled with major economic growth. It’s possible that policy makers were hesitant to react when inflation started up with a vengeance about one year ago. But for many months since that time, it appeared that the Federal Reserve
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Are you surprised at the extent of resistance by Ukraine in their current war with Russia? It appears to many observers that the Russian Military and Putin Government probably miscalculated the Ukrainian people’s will to resist domination. By taking a look at the last 100 years of the history of Ukrainian-Russian relations we can see
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Inflation is upon us as evidenced by rising fuel and food prices, along with almost everything from clothing, to housing, to new vehicles. Most economists point to this round of inflation as owing to ultra-low interest rates coupled with low unemployment thereby providing strong demand. The supply chain, still recovering from Covid, cannot rise up
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At the end of World War I, the U.S. economy went through a major boom era known popularly as the roaring twenties. Rising incomes meeting up with rising technological advances created progressive lifestyles for many middle and upper class Americans. It also nourished the get-rich-quick attitude that has long pervaded American society. Those times and
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Mariupol in the Ukraine has made lots of news lately, most of which has been unfortunate owing to Russia’s recent invasion of the Ukraine. Prior to the devastation that has taken place there in the last five weeks, what type of city was Mariupol? Where was Mariupol located? What was so important about it? Founded
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