International trade agreements have been in the news recently, from Britain’s decision to leave the EU to the United States pulling out of the agreement on TPP and the U.S. re-opening negotiations on NAFTA. Discuss the expected winners and losers from such events and how these events might affect attempts at international expansion, foreign direct investment, and enforcement of international regulations.

1. The following questions concern Jesse Gelsinger who suffered from partial OTC.

            a. In the United States the average person eats far more protein than needed to meet the demands of protein synthesis in their cells. What happens to the extra amino acids? Be specific.

            b. Describe Jesse’s illness.

            c. Briefly describe the experimental treatment he underwent.

How did Prohibition act as a catalyst for the development of organized crime in the United States? Do you think that the decriminalization/legalization of drugs, prostitution, pornography and the like would reduce the impact of OC in our country today? Explain your answer.

How does the criminality of organized crime differ from that of conventional criminals and terrorists? Give examples in your answers.

14) Recall the film “God Grew Tired of Us”. Describe normative history-graded (or cohort) differences

between Panther, John, & Daniels’s cohort in the Sudan and the current cohort of children in the United

States. How do you think the early traumatic experiences of the “Lost Boys” will affect their beliefs,

values, and priorities about family, responsibility, and life in the future?

ECO 345 – BOP Assignment Determine how each of the following transactions are entered into the US balance of payments?

1. Boeing Corporation sells five passenger planes to China for $35,000,000 China pays $5,000,000 of this amount in cash out her dollar deposits with Citibank in New York. The remainder of the amount is financed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Your friend is worried about his job security and wants to create a startup company. Perhaps surprisingly, he is able to take his startup to IPO within a 5-year period. The firm has just announced its first dividend of $3/share and the firm’s dividend is expected to grow extremely fast for 4 years in a row at 30% each year. However, he expects that the company will only grow at 5% after that forever. Expected return (discount rate) for stocks is 12%. Please use the dividend discount model to price the stock at t=0.

a) $99.34

b) $69.59

c) $92.81

d) $87.65

e) $103.21

Many people living in the United States experience food insecurity. A person who is food insecure does not have access to enough nourishing food at all times to lead a healthy, active life. Conversely, when a person experiences food security, he or she is able to include a variety of nutritious foods in his or her diet and obtains these foods without depending on the assistance of others or the government. The four categories of food security/insecurity are: high food security, marginal food security, low food security, and very low food security.

Currently, 13% of Americans are food insecure, with approximately 8% living in low food security and 5% living in very low food security. Individuals who experience very low food security frequently report that they do not always eat when they are hungry; they eat less than they feel they should; they skip meals more than three times a month or even go an entire day without eating; and they have lost weight because of not eating. Americans who are unemployed, work in low-paying jobs, or have excessive medical and housing expenses often experience food insecurity.

According to the USDA, the following Americans are more likely to be food insecure:

• Households with children, especially if a single woman is the head of the household;
• Households that live at 185% of the poverty threshold;
• Hispanic families and black, non-Hispanic families;
• Households living in metropolitan areas; and
• Households in southern and western regions of the United States.

1. _______ refers to a person who experiences reduced nutritional quality of their diet due to a limited ability to purchase enough nutrient-dense food.

• High food security

• Low food security

• Marginal food security

• Very low food security

2. In the United States, approximately _______ of Americans are food insecure.

• 20%

• 10%

• 5%

• 13%

3. A person who experiences very low food security _______.

• All of the choices are correct.

• has likely lost weight because of not eating

• skips meals more than three times a month, and often more often than that

• does not always eat when they are hungry

4. Which of the following does not describe a characteristic of someone more likely to be food insecure in the United States?

• Hispanic families

• Households living in rural areas

• Households with a single mother and her children

• Households that live at 185% of the poverty threshold

7) During the last two decades, there has been an increase in income inequality in the United States.

Which of the following is a reason income inequality in the United States has increased?

A) There are sharply lower marginal tax rates now than in the 1970s.

B) Marginal tax rates have increased significantly since the 1970s.

C) There has been a great increase in efficiency of government antipoverty programs.

D) There has been a significant drop in the number of single-parent families.

8) Which of the following is correct regarding these income transfers?

A) Means-tested income transfers have more than doubled per-capita income during the period 1970–2014.

B) Means-tested government programs lead to lower implicit marginal tax rates.

C) Means-tested income transfers have not been very effective in reducing poverty.

D) Means-tested government programs are not linked to income levels.

9) As income transfer programs accompanying the War on Poverty increased beginning in the latter half of the 1960s, what happened to poverty in the United States? Check all that apply.

A) In 2014, the adjusted poverty rate was only 2 percentage points lower than the official rate in 1970.

B) The poverty rate declined substantially in the period before the War on Poverty, but not in the period after the start of the War on Poverty.

C) The adjusted poverty rate has declined rapidly and is now less than half of the official poverty rate.

D) The poverty rate in the United States declined substantially after the start of the War on Poverty.

10) Consider the following scenario in the state of Taxopia.

One family has an annual income of $100,000, while another family has an annual income of only $20,000. Under what circumstances would this outcome be considered unfair in terms of the process view of fairness?

A) The family with the high income has three income earners, whereas the family with the lower income has only one income earner.

B) In the family with the high income, both spouses work, whereas the family with the lower income relies on Social Security payments.

C) The family with the higher income is headed by a person who completed a college degree, whereas the other family is headed by someone with low educational achievement.

D) The family with the higher income derives most of its income from the farm subsidy program.