Some problems with Taylor rules YUGUANG LIN 870311-T297 1 Taylor rule Interest rates‚ inflation rate and real output have always been important factors for the government and its central bank to reexamine the formulation of macroeconomic policy. Their intrinsic links are also concerned issues for the economic circles. People generally believe that monetary policy should respond in a manner that the adjustment of the interest rate could timely reflect the inflation and real output changes
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to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals”(Glenn Greenwald). Over the last few years‚ numerous ways of increasing government surveillance have been introduced with the hope that they will increase public safety. In contrast‚ many people have argued that government surveillances’ effective ability to increase safety was not worth
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Why Do We Learn English The phenomenon comes into vogue that Chinese people receive English education at an early age. Even the Chinese students are willing to show off their English skills or are proud of specializing in English‚ while what the most veritable motivation for studying is English seems to be confusing. And I‚ as a typical Chinese student who has been learning English for a long time‚ was also curious about that and explained it basing on two aspects; one for the society and one
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Big Brother’s Influence In the novel Big Brother plays the role of not only a leader but the controller. He is not like a president that people view as a political leader that has ideas to help the country‚ but more like a leader who controls everything you do‚ when you do it‚ and how it should be done. Whether or not the citizens realize what Big Brother really controls and how much power he actually possesses doesn’t change the fact that his main role is the controller. Big Brother himself may
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outside of Lehman’s New York City offices and handed out markers to employees and pedestrians so they could write a message regarding the firm’s announcement that it was filing for bankruptcy. On September 15‚ 2008‚ financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York. 95 That action—the largest Chapter 11 filing in financial history—unleashed a “crisis of confidence that threw financial markets worldwide into turmoil‚ sparking
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The growing problem of government surveillance The internet is being regulated more and more by governments‚ but is it a good thing? There’s a global war going on right now. I’m not talking about Syria‚ I’m talking about the war on the Internet. As the Internet has gotten bigger over the years‚ it has become a bigger interest for governments all over the world. Presidents and kings have a Twitter account now‚ and all the plans for budget spending are put on government websites. But it also
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includes the date‚ time‚ and location of all calls. The government has access to many public surveillance systems in the pursuance of keeping the peace. Many Americans today disagree with giving the government the privilege to watch them walk down the sidewalk‚ drive in their cars‚ and know who they are calling. However‚ the government uses this right for many important observations. The government should have the ability to use surveillance to maintain order because it will help locate criminals
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narrow-minded and do not seem to understand that their actions only serve to breed mistrust that undermine themselves and their loved ones because as Martin Luther king Jr. famously said: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
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“Big Brother Big Business” by David FaberSummary Big Brother Big Business takes a disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be deteriorating the freedoms many people take for granted. More than ever before‚ technology is being used to monitor Americans. Driving habits are being documented‚ personnel are monitored‚ shoppers and patrons are observed and analyzed‚ and Internet queries are saved and utilized as evidence in the courtroom. It is Big Business which gathers the
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The history of surveillance started with the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights in 1791. In 1919‚ the US Department of State approved the creation of the Cipher Bureau which was also known as “Black Chamber. The Cipher Bureau was the precursor to the NSA and it was the first peacetime federal intelligence agency in the US. In 1945. Project SHAMROCK was a large scale spying operation that was designed to get telegraphic data going in and out of the United States. It was terminated in 1975 when
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