The history of barter exchange can be traced back to several eons ago. However do to the lack of access to history of the ancient ages, we cannot tell when this system exactly begun. There are several versions of barter. There is one to one barter which is practised between individuals. But this type of … Read more
Pricing an Asset If there should be a momentary disequilibrium such that the price of an asset were “too high,” causing expected returns to be “too low,” investors would sell the asset and its price would return to the equilibrium level. And, the converse would be true for assets whose prices were “too low” and whose … Read more
Have you filled up the gas tank lately? If you have then you know it is a pain at the pump for everybody in America. But the real pain is something most middle Americans don’t even know about, and I’m not even talking about the 47% of the country that does not pay taxes. No, … Read more
U.S. Trade Policy and Declining Manufacturing: Where do we go from here? Paul Crist, August 14, 2010 The U.S. economy and the manufacturing sector in particular, face both short-term and long-term challenges. There is debate about whether government can or should play a role in addressing those challenges, and if so, what are the fiscal, … Read more
At your next board room meeting, asset management priorities will not be the primary topic and you should be ready. In most situations, business executives would most often assign asset management to manual and tedious processes which can be prone to errors, with high consequent costs in the long run. There might be strong and … Read more