.... 1980's. This was due to the low complexity of the financial markets. Since then, investment banking jobs have been significantly growing due to the availability of complex securities and high-yield bonds, also known as junk bonds.(Investment Banking,12) Now that the financial market has become more complex, companies that didn't require and investment bankers now need their advice to effectively help their company sell stocks and bonds, and to make financial plans for the future. This shows the growing need for investment bankers in the securities industry. Investment bankers serve a majo .....

.... balance of payments and the lower the amount of domestic currency exporters receive per unit of foreign exchange earned. There is no need for high protection at the first stage of import substitution in the replacement of the imports of non-durable consumer goods (clothing, shoes, household goods, textile fabrics, leather, wood and other types of inputs) since these commodities exist in the developing countries that are at the initial frontier of industrialization. The commodities I mentioned are intensive in unskilled labor, the scale of output is relatively low, and costs do not rise sub .....

.... the economic conditions for many years. In addition, economists and marketers use certain economic indictors to predict trends in their industry. Companies must borrow money occasionally and the inflation rate determines the real cost of borrowing. Inflation and interest rates are important in economic dynamics but not bottom line measures. Two important general measures of economic welfare are unemployment and the rate of growth in real per capita national income. When growth is slow, unemployment increases. The unemployment rate has a great impact. The level of imports is driven .....

.... to receive a well-paying job. In other words, the Internet service providing industry is playing a large part in helping the US economy reach full employment, meaning that the cyclic unemployment is approaching zero. Although it seems the industry is very secure because it is in a full employment situation now, this does not mean that there is a very low amount of unemployment. According to many economists, there are three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment occurs when the rate of people changing jobs is high. The second kind of unemployment .....

.... creating a paperless environment, we have less need to have printed out resources when we can just store these things on a computer and have almost instant access to them. Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, together they were pioneers in developing the personal computer. In 1975 they together created a version of BASIC for the Altair 8800, the first minicomputer kit. This was the beginning of the now giant, Microsoft. With this new computer technology came information. Information was now quickly becoming the most valuable commodity. Many engineers have used the binary system, inven .....

.... goal that IT outsourcing takes on, is reducing technological risk. By outsourcing your needs you know that that the employee know what they are doing. Some of the problems IT outsourcing may encounter are, loss of strategic control, risk of technological obsolescence, limiting of long-term flexibility, difficulty in benchmarking initial contract, hostage to additional charges, high exit or switching costs, limited choice of vendors, the fixed nature of legal contracts, legal exposure, from dissatisfied former employees, and cultural conflicts. The people doing the outsourcing for t .....

.... is a blend of marketing communication channels that a business utilities to send its messages to consumers. The elements of a promotional mix are personal the final chapter in selling, which is pretty explainable all by it self, publicity, the act of making yourself or company known, advertising, the act of promoting your goods, services, or ideas, and finally sales promotion, which are things on the line of coupons and commercials. This is how not only Grocery Store Marketing promotes itself, but also most types of marketing use the same methods. The elements of a grocery store are all .....

.... sport into a ruthless money hungry business. Corporations use marketing techniques to trick young people into buying their products by modeling their products around famous sporting stars even though the product has nothing to do with the sporting star and using false statements e.g. McDonlands released a burger called the MJ burger and used the slogan 'I wanna be like Mike'. Their marketing techniques can best be described as 'blind bullying' where they lure you in and take all your money. The marketing techniques used in Modern North America have undermined traditional sporting values o .....

.... of the American economy. NAFTA negotiations began on June 11, 1990 when former President George Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gurtari met to discuss the possibility of revising current trade policies. The thing that set the NAFTA apart from other trade agreements historically was that it was to be the first trade agreement entered into between two industrial countries and a developing country. By much of the world the NAFTA is often viewed upon as North America's answer to the European trading bloc. Many provisions of the NAFTA take their roots in the Canada-U.S. Free .....

.... the fast-food restaurant has become the organizational force representing and extending the process of rationalization further into the realm of everyday interaction and individual identity. McDonald's serves as the case model of this process in the 1990's. ...McDonaldization,...is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world. (Ritzer, 1993:1) How Far Has It Gone? Since 1955 McDonald's has grown to over 12,000 outlets worldwide. The central concepts employed in the fast-foo .....