Race, Ethnicity and Family: Economics of the African-American Family
Poverty has long been a fact of life in many African-American communities. In part this has been due to discrimination but, more recently, broad-based structural changes in the American economy have also played a part. The financial challenge fac...
Good Match, A
In this video the student will learn that the key to successful selling is being able to convert "product features" into "buyer benefits."
Balancing Act: Debate over the Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve
When the economy began to slow at the start of the new millennium, the Federal Reserve employed another policy used to control the economy, adjusting the federal funds rates. The Federal Reserve is an independent body appointed by the president with...
Balancing Act: Globalization's Impact on National Economic Control
It is much harder for any national government to control and affect the behavior of their national economy given the trend toward globalization. Their fate is interrelated with people all over the world. Many Americans fear that globalization is dam...
Balancing Act: Historical Relationship between the U. S. Government and the Nation's Economy
Government maintained a hands-off policy toward business and the economy for much of its early history. But in the early part of the 20th century it became more involved, breaking up trusts and establishing the Federal Reserve as the central bank fo...
Sales Engine, The
Addresses the ways in which personal selling stimulates economic growth in a market driven economy, and traces its evolution from the early days of the Production Era to present day.
Unspoken Social Compact, The
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich talks about what he calls "the unspoken social compact" between companies and their employees that used to assure increases in earnings and benefits for workers whose companies prospere...
American Economy During the Clinton Administration, The
Director of the National Economic Council and former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers talks about the mostly positive economic record of the Clinton administration, which included decreasing unemployment and inflation and an increase in jo...