PART; What would you expect economist to predict would be the impact on your life relative to the solar power industry if there were no off shore drilling and no importation of foreign oil?(Hint: The combination of these two changes would reduce the supply of oil in the United States by about 70%)

PART 2: Digging Deeper When disaster strikes, you can count on two things: Looting and Price Gouging. Consider that a major hurricane has struck. Power is out, chaos has ensued. Explain what might happen in terms of the supply of essential goods, such as food and gas. Then discuss how price gouging might result. Compare and contrast price gouging with looting.

John Jones, CFA, is head of the research department at Peninsular Research. Peninsular has a client who has inquired about the valuation method best suited for comparing companies in an industry with the following characteristics:
• Principal competitors within the industry are located in the United States, France, Japan, and Brazil.

• The industry is currently operating at a cyclical low, with many companies reporting losses. Jones recommends that the client consider the following valuation ratios:

1. P/E.

2. P/B.

3. EV/S.

Determine which one of the three valuation ratios is most appropriate for comparing companies in this industry. Support your answer with one reason that makes that ratio superior to either of the other two ratios in this case.

Suppose the table gives the number N(t), measured in thousands, of minimally invasive cosmetic surgery procedures performed in the United States for various years t.

t N(t)(thousands)

(b) Construct a table of estimated values for N'(t). (Use a one-sided difference quotient with an adjacent point for the first and last values, and the average of two difference quotients with adjacent points for all other values. Round your answers to two decimal places.)

1. Megaphone is a cellular telephone service provider with 40% market share of the telephone service market in the United States. The CEO, Schubert Purdoch, has achieved that share in large part by acquiring small competitors. Megaphone is seeking to acquire Vinaphone which provides cellular telephone service as well. Vinaphone has become a household name in large part because of their ads making fun of Megaphone as an “out of touch dinosaur” of a company, featuring a dinosaur with the head of Schubert Purdoch. After this merger, Megaphone will not only be able to pull those ads off the air, but will also have 60% market share for telephone service. How would the FTC analyze this merger? What question(s) would be asked?

The table below shows the number of deaths in the U.S. in a year due to a variety of causes. For these questions, assume these values are not changing from year to year, and that the population of the United States is 312 million people.

Make sure your answer is accurate to at least 2 significant figures (values after leading zeros)

c) What is the probability that you will die as a passenger car occupant next year?

c) What is the probability that you will died as a passenger car occupant last year?

a) What is the probability that an American chosen at random died as a passenger car occupant last year?

Lakonishok Equipment has an investment opportunity in Europe. The project costs 15.7 million euros and is expected to produce cash flows of 1.2 million euros in Year 1, 8.4 million euros in Year 2, and 11.5 million euros in Year 3. The current spot exchange rate is 0.821 euros per 1 U.S. dollar. The current risk-free rate in the United States is 3.3 percent, compared to 1.5 percent in Europe. The appropriate discount rate for the project is estimated to be 8.2 percent, the U.S. cost of capital for the company. The subsidiary can be sold at the end of three years for an estimated 7.6 million euros. What is the NPV of the project ignoring taxes?

[Round the final answer to the nearest cent]

Please no plagiarism and must be in your own words. (4 pages minimum)

Case: You run cybersecurity operations for the for a healthcare emergency response logistics firm with global contracts with contracts with the United States and the Canadian government. COVID-19 had caused your organization to move to telework.

Write an overview of 3-4 pages introduction paper explaining what is currently happening. the paper should address the following questions:

1. What is the impact of COVID 19 on organizations?
2. What are some key statistics about COVID 19 costs to organizations?
3. What are the staffing and employee safety issues related to COVID 19?
4. What are organizational responses to COVID 19 (Telework, Social Distancing, etc.)?

Quinine (C20H24N2O2) a white crystalline bitter tasting powder which was originally used as a preventative medication for malaria. It is a weak base with kb=3.3 x 10^-6 M. However, Quinine is now more commonly used in small concentrations in tonic water. Quinine is responsible for the fluorescent properties when tonic water is under ultraviolet light (blacklights). Due to the toxic effects of quinine the United States limits the quinine content to 83 ppm for each 1 liter bottle.

Write a balanced chemical equation of quinine solid dissolving in water including all phases, and indicate which species is an acid, base, conjugate acid and conjugate base.

Calculate the pH of the tonic water.

In an attempt to reduce the extraordinarily long travel times for voyaging to distant stars, some people have suggested traveling at close to the speed of light. Suppose you wish to visit the red giant star Betelgeuse, which is 430 ly away, and that you want your 20,000 kg rocket to move so fast that you age only 24 years during the round trip.

A) How fast, as a fraction of c, must the rocket travel relative to earth?

B) How much energy is needed to accelerate the rocket to this speed?

C) Compare this amount of energy to the total energy E0 used by the United States in the year 2015, which was roughly 1.0×1020 J.

1. Workers in the manufacturing floor are being replaced by robots and other machines. On one hand, this lets companies compete with cheap labor from other countries. On the other hand, automation eliminates many jobs. Are you concerned that automation may increase unemployment or underemployment in the United States and around the world?

2. If a company provides employer-paid child care services to workers with children, should those who don't have children or don't need child care be compensated any other way?

3. What advantages do compensation plans such as profit sharing and employee stock ownership offer an organization? What are the benefits and challenges of flextime, tele-commuting, and job sharing?