... Boombustology of Tulipomania The Multilens Look Chapter TheGreat Depression: FromRoaringTwentiestoYawningThirties 117 Castles in the Sand From Booming Twentiesto Busted ThirtiesThe Boombustology ... sector) are actually quite rare As such, the second part of the book applies the five lenses to five case studies to generate a “bubble-spotting” theory The cases chosen (Tulipmania, theGreat Depression, ... of the book presents five historical cases and utilizes the five lenses from Part One to evaluate them Specifically, Chapter evaluates the Tulipmania of the 1630s, Chapter applies the lenses to the...
... evasion scandals and the rising cost of the 10BA provision led tothe winding back of the 10BA subsidy from 1988 With the taxpayer as the overwhelming funder of Australian production, the production ... structure, the AFC, rather than private investors, provided the initial development funding for many projects, with the FFC ‗topping up‘ the funding once the AFC hurdle had been cleared Consequently, the ... Thus, while the 10BA scheme continued to operate in this modified form until 2007, the ‗10BA era‘ can be considered to have ended by the late 1980s The local production sector and the relevant...
... to as the juice meeting), to review the current science, including technological and safety factors, relating to fresh juices and to consider measures necessary to provide safe fruit juices to ... (NACMCF) attended the public meeting The FPS met after the public meeting and made recommendations tothe NACMCF The NACMCF subsequently met to discuss the issues that were raised at the meeting Based ... laws For the purposes of this deÞnition, the importer is ordinarily not the custom house broker, the freight forwarder, the carrier, or the steamship representative (i) Monitor means to conduct...
... inspection reports for all bridges in the state and submits them annually tothe FHWA, where they are entered into the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database The NBI must be updated annually as ... vehicular traffic • The total structure length must be equal to or greater than 20 ft Based on the above criteria, there are 594,888 structures in the inventory as of December 2003 Of the structures ... maintaining the NBI is to monitor the condition of bridges carrying public highways Therefore, for funding and reporting purposes, the FHWA considers only structures meeting the following criteria: • The...
... Finally, to measure social integration in the FFS we use mothers’ reports of whether they have at least one close friend; whether they feel alone; and whether they know most of their neighbors In the ... related to mothers’ behaviors in either country In the U.S., mothers with someone to rely on for housing are less likely to smoke around their children There also is weak evidence that mothers ... examine the extent to which the paradox of healthier behavior among foreign-born mothers is unique tothe Hispanic population in the U.S., or if it spans groups from disparate regions In addition, the...
... respondent to hear the questions and response choices over headphones or read them on the screen and enter a response into the computer without the interviewer knowing what the response was The main ... support from other components of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services These organizations, along with leading researchers from outside the government, helped to design the Cycle NSFG The ... 10 percent, the text will generally cite the exact percentage to one decimal point To make reading smoother and to remind the reader that the results are based on samples and subject to sampling...
... which shows the relative performance of the financial sector tothe total domestic market for both the US and Ireland In both countries, financial stock prices grew rapidly relative tothe total market ... participants Furthermore, the bailout tothe US financial system in the wake of the LTCM collapse (see Lowenstein, 2000) served to reinforce the belief that certain participants were ‘too big to fail’ ... loan-tovalue, higher income multiples, longer maturities, and with interest-only periods The only step the regulator took to stem the sharp decline in lending standards was to increase to 100% the...
... Since the bulk of business R&D occurs in a few major sectors, these are the sectors that benefit the most fromthe corporate R&D tax credit In 2008, business funded 67 percent of total R&D in the ... the tax credit from 1997 to 2008, the most recent year for which data are available The two measures are the “tax expenditure” (the impact of the credit on the federal budget as reported by the ... caution applies only tothe use of the long-run elasticity to simulate the effect of a large increase in the tax credit, not tothe estimate of the elasticity itself.52 The Joint Committee on...
... rate: the NIPA estimates fromthe BEA and the estimates of the changes in personal net wealth that can be computed fromthe flow of funds (FoF) accounts maintained at the Board of Governors of the ... by definition—if households tried to cash them in, they would cause the bubble to burst, causing the capital gains to vanish.10 Therefore it is debatable whether such unstable components should ... focused on a few other accounting issues in their attempt to make sense of the recent decline (to negative territory) of the U.S personal saving rate First, the BEA’s choice to consider net acquisitions...
... military factors in Europe affect the prospects for the expansion of the U.S defense industry into overseas markets? Further analysis of these broad questions in the follow-up study, together with ... perceive the ITAR as an impediment both tothe leveling up of NATO and other allied forces and to greater interoperability of such forces with those of the United States EAA 1979 is believed to encumber ... • The need to prepare the United States, its allies, and other friends to fight future wars as coalitions (the political-military dimension); and • The need to protect U.S national security (the...
... pose There are several aspects tothe problem First, if the Russians still feel the need to be able to respond to a surprise attack on their nuclear forces (presumably fromthe United States), they ... recognized that fact fromthe beginning and tried to take steps to reduce the dangers, but the perceived need to deter a deliberate nuclear attack took precedence The end of the Cold War changed ... NATO’s tactical nuclear forces were in the past Of course, if the United States were to actually try to remove nuclear weapons from European storage sites with the idea of really using them, the...
... the Headquarters) The hiring committee does not set a work schedule for the interns Instead, the interns set their schedules with their supervisor once they start work How many weeks I need to ... Students interested in the OIG should apply tothe Headquarters using the procedure described above and highlight their preference in their cover letter The Office of Inspector General is an independent ... unique opportunity to obtain exposure tothe various divisions and offices of the Commission Students interning in the Office of Inspector General may be assigned to assist both the audit and investigations...
... million tothe Office municipal d’habitation for affordable housing, and another $1.1 million tothe Rénovation Québec program In August 2009, the City of Toronto adopted “Housing Opportunities Toronto: ... Plan (2009–2011), the City of Toronto has successfully partnered with the federal and provincial governments to create 2,712 new affordable homes for some 5,200 Torontonians Toronto residents being ... robust housing sector Proposed Rental Initiatives FCM has outlined three initiatives to strengthen the rental sector, while enhancing the economic impact of the housing sector The options outlined...
... (“stretch”) to keep the top of the plant above the water surface, the water can be raised to kill the lateral meristems for some distance up the stem After the impoundment is drained, the coffeebean ... Ecosystem efforts tothe entire southeast, particularly the MAV, the Jackson Migratory Bird Field Office, with comments from biologists fromthe MAV, added numerous species and rankings to their list ... remains high and fields rarely dry tothe extent they in non-coastal areas of the southeast “Tools” available to set back the plant community successional stage or to control problem vegetation include:...
... estimated fromthe ARMS data and added tothe state average market prices in order to estimate the opportunity cost of these homegrown organic feeds Pasture rental rates estimated fromthe ARMS ... regions to cover the added operating costs of organic production Average premiums needed to cover operating and capital ownership costs ranged from $6.67 in the Northeast to $7.81 in the West The ... premiums paid to Northeast producers in 2005 covered these added costs, but not in the other regions In contrast, premiums needed to cover total economic costs were highest in the Northeast ($13.84...
... birth tothe Masters These four tournaments eventually became known as the Majors They were not, however, always the premier golf events Originally, the U.S Open, The Open Championship, the U.S ... them And there are those whose names sometimes are recorded with only an initial or two—or three Sources frequently are inconsistent from round -to- round and from tournament -to- tournament in the ... of shots behind the winner at the completion of the tournament; for the winner, a minus sign (-) preceding the numeral indicates the number of shots ahead of second place Tot: total score (sum...
... facilitated the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan Chase.7 By contrast, when the creditors of Lehman Brothers were no longer willing to lend tothe firm, the Fed determined that Lehman See the FDIC ... respectively; SD, standard deviation; totbr, total number of branches; tot_zipbr, total number of unique zip codes; tot_cntybr, total number of counties; tot_statebr, total number of states in which ... investors to use an accelerated depreciation schedule for real property, which tended to inflate commercial property values The removal of these tax shelters “helped to send the industry into a...
... research, dedicated tothe furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining tothe health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given tothe ... Research The study committee envisions research in three major areas: to monitor and analyze structural variables; to serve the needs of diverse constituencies; and to further explain how other factors—including...