The expected dividends for a stock are: Year 1=$2, Year 2=$3, after Year 2, we expect dividends to grow by 6% forever. If we require an annual return of 8% from this stock, what would be the value of the stock to us? If it sells for $30 in the market, should we buy it?

Often crisis countries end up seeking bail-out packages from the lender of the last resort like IMF or other large economies, such as the US or EU. The bail-outs come with loan conditionalities. Do your group think that achieving these conditionalities made the crisis countries better off?

US economy has experienced a significant rise in its national debt over the last 30 years? What do you think the reasons for such change have been? What would you suggest for its remedy in the next decade? Explain your suggestions from the perspective of their economic impact.

Name and explain briefly how theories of the term structure provide explanations of how interest rates on bonds with different terms to maturity are related. And elucidate as well how these theories allow us to infer the market’s expectations about the movement of future short-term interest rates from the yield curve

8. The US and China as competitors seem to be engaged in a trade war. The bone of contention is tariff imposition from both the “warring” countries.

i)What impact is expected on imports or exports by such tariff-imposition? Why?

ii) What impact can tariffs possibly have on GDP growth of these two countries?

Please provide citation Compare the criteria of the scientific method with everyday decision making. In what ways is the scientific method superior? Is it inferior in any way? Can it blind us into thinking it is the only way to gather and interpret data? From your research or experience, provide an example to support your answer,

What elements in society allowed for the poor and sometimes horrific treatment of humans in research studies? Have those elements changed much now? What keeps us from repeating history? What area of current research may be operating in an ethical gray space? Please justify your answer.

By now most of us are familiar with Uber's pricing model. Similar pricing models are beginning to be employed by other industries. Suggest a business or industry that you believe would benefit from an Uber-style pricing model. Explain why you think that particular industry would be appropriate for such a pricing model.

There are many ways in which images can convey logos, ethos, and pathos. They can be both persuasive and deceptive, especially in playing on our emotions. What are some ways in which images present arguments differently from written arguments? What are some ways in which arguments can mislead us?