America’s Budget Impasse, 2001-2020

America’s Budget Impasse, 2001-2020, draws on recent government documents to review America’s economic performance since 2001, the ideology and impact of the Bush tax cuts, Obama’s 2009 tax incentives, tax cuts of Trump in 2017 and President Trump’s budget proposal to examine fiscal year 2020.

Hoechst and the German Chemical Industry

It describes the rise of the German chemical industry and the country-specific factors that contributed to this increase. Focused on the German company Hoechst: its history, its position after the Second World War and its subsequent internationalization. It played in 1986 when Hoechst made a multi-million dollar acquisition of Celanese Corp. considered in the US …

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The Water Cycle, Climate Change, and (Some of) Their Interactions

This grade is given in the Dardens elective “Global Water Economics.” There is more than enough fresh water to meet the world’s needs. However, the main concern is the geographic discrepancy between water needs and the availability of water for the communities that need it. Therefore, a great challenge for the 21st century is to …

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Launching the European Food Safety Authority

The first food safety commission for the European Union is created. What about food safety, scientific assessments and people’s attitudes towards scientific changes in food growing and processing, for example genetically modified organisms?

Hong Kong’s Financial Crisis–1997-98

The Asian miracle turned into a nightmare in 1997. Thailand brought the region into freefall when the baht split from the US dollar in July. This brought down other Asian currencies as speculators took advantage of the opportunities to win. Hong Kong was not immune to regional troubles. The first attack on the Hong Kong …

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