Government Policies
Government intervention may set standards that create excess quantity supply, such as unemployment in the labor market.
Government Motors
Fritz Henderson will try to make GM profitable with an unusual financial arrangement. A large portion of the company will be held by the government
Distrusting Government
Cuomo explains that a lot of people have lost confidence in the government's ability to practice generosity responsibly.
Government Intervention
Government often proposes price controls in the marketplace in response to short-term conditions. Government intervention may take the form of taxes
Local Government
Women are the majority of voters in the country but make up less than 20% of Congress. Rashida Talib is a Muslim who was elected to the Michigan Legislature.
Government Shutdown
Snowe addresses increasing partisanship. In 2013, conservatives refused to approve the federal budget in an attempt to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
The bottom line: privatizing the world
Some call it a winner-take-all opportunity. Others call it the exploitation of scarcity in its most extreme form. This program challenges big
Subject: Big business
Transcript: negotiating with the big laboratories and hope to reach an agreement. [SPEAKING PORTUGUESE] If we can't, the government has decided to infringe on the patents
Theodore Roosevelt and Reform (Part Two)
government that could regulate private industry and private power." Professor Gerstle suggests that Theodore Roosevelt was very much responsible for that
Subject: big government
Legendary Frontier, The: Dispersal of the Tribes, The
, but these legal protections are subverted by the government when it gets in their way. One of the most dramatic examples of the incongruity of U
Subject: U. S. government's Indian policy
Data Mining: Big Data's Increasing Challenge and Payoff
for analysis grows with every bar-code scan and Facebook post, the world of Big Data represents a seemingly endless wellspring of opportunity. But what
Transcript: big data. The amount of data being generated today is unprecedented. It can be used in many beneficial ways. But to unearth the hidden information