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...Banking Even in consumer’s everyday lives, the principles of economics are evident. This can be seen in the current state of the coffee market, as the beverage grows more ubiquitous worldwide, even in traditional tea-drinking nations such as China, Japan, and India, and more and more consumers in America are willing to pay premium prices for the product. According to a 2016 article in Forbes by Laura Lorenzetti, although world demand for coffee is on the rise, Americans are still driving the trend. Coffee consumption has increased and thus prices for the beverage have increased, as suppliers can command a higher price for their product. Coffee production itself has also been hard-hit by bad harvest in critical production areas such as Brazil. Coupled with physically curtailed demand and the willingness of consumers to pay more, prices have seen a corresponding increase.
Under most circumstances, producers will increase production if they know……
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Lorenzetti, Laura. “Americans’ Coffee Guzzling Is Pushing Bean Prices Higher.” July 1, 2016. Web. August 5, 2019. https://fortune.com/2016/07/01/americans-coffee-prices/
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...Banking Week 1 Discussion
What is Money Worth
Time value of money is an important consideration when making financial decisions. For instance, money is useful for making immediate transactions—but if one holds onto cash too long, what happens to the value of the dollar over time? An historical chart shows perfectly well what happens: it loses value substantially. Thus, to maintain the value of one’s wealth it is important to think about alternative investments that keep track with the rate of inflation—assets such as precious metals or real estate. There are also risk assets, such as equities. Even still no investment is risk free and bubbles blown today in markets can pop tomorrow. This happened in the gold market a few years ago. The equities markets have yet to pop in any meaningful way, but that does not mean they won’t. And real estate values plummeted in 2008 when the housing……
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Cook, L. A., & Sadeghein, R. (2018). Effects of perceived scarcity on financial decision making. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 37(1), 68-87.
Northwood, J. M., & Rhine, S. L. (2018). Use of bank and nonbank financial services: Financial decision making by immigrants and native born. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 52(2), 317-348.
Valaskova, K., Bartosova, V., & Kubala, P. (2019). Behavioural Aspects of the Financial Decision-Making. Organizacija, 52(1).
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...Banking Is the Theory of Utility Maximization Reliable for Rational Consumers to Make Decisions?
The article by Rothman about Johnson’s book focuses on the topic of how most people use “bounded rationality” to make their decisions—that is, they do not use a true scientific process when deciding what to do with their lives. Rather they make choices based on constrained circumstances: they do not push the parameters of their knowledge or seek out all options and explore all possibilities, weighing pros and cons with statistical rigor. The reason is that most people prefer to follow whatever impulse feels right after a cursory examination of the situation, without expending a great deal of energy on the matter. They may spend two weeks deciding what type of laptop or car to buy, but that is because the specs have already been quantified for them: they only need to compare the numbers and the……
Works Cited
Rothman, Joshua. “The Art of Decision Making.” The New Yorker, 2019.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making
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...Banking Three key issues related to global inequality are health and social problems (such as education and social relationships), economic stability, and sustainability (Pickett, 2015). Inequality in nations correlates with higher mortality rates and poorer health; social cohesion is typically lacking in unequal societies, education levels are lower, and there is little progress towards poverty reduction in unequal societies. As Pickett (2015) notes, inequality also fosters a spirit of consumerism that is antithetical to the notion of the common good. In societies where there is greater equality, business leaders generally work together to achieve greater environmental care and implement sustainable practices to reduce their carbon footprint.
Some potential solutions to global inequality are to prevent the wealth gap from widening. This can be achieved by creating laws that prohibit Board members from enjoying lucrative contracts; Board should also be staffed by employee representatives. Earnings should be more equal and less heavily……
References
Pickett, K. (2015). 5 reasons why we need to reduce global inequality. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/09/5-reasons-why-we-need-to-reduce-global-inequality/
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