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    which ultimately lead to the infamous Stock Market Crash of 1929. The “roaring twenties” was an era when our country prospered greatly. The rapid increase in industrialization was fueling growth in the economy, and technology improvements had the leading economists living that the uprise would continue. During this boom period, wages increased along with consumer spending and stock prices began to rise as well. Billions of dollars were invested in the stock market as people began speculation on

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    the causes of the stock market crash of 2008 came into discussion. The topics regarding Bear Stearns, the Lehman Brothers’ and their collapse, and the huge bailout made in results to the market crash. There were great points being made on the mistakes Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke did not view from their perspective, which in turns were the problems that made up the crash. It was not until 2007 when foreclosures occurred more and became prominent, especially since the last market crash during the

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    entire income into the stock market, now your beautiful family are victims of the stock market’s rollercoaster ride. You don’t know if you’ll wake up rich or lose everything, it’s quite the rush. The stock market is a very complex subject, there are experts and people who think they are experts. It revolves around one subject, and one subject only Money. No matter experience level, or knowledge on the stock market; no single person is able to give a for sure answer on whether a stock will go up, down,

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    Chinese stock market climbed to an unprecedented high point. However, the real economy cannot catch on the inflated stock market. The creation of a bull market by increasing leverages finally burst the bubble. The Chinese government initiates extraordinary measures such as buying stocks, freezing IPO, prohibiting big shareholder to sale, and injecting stimulus. Overall, the government has spent 236 billion dollars, but the policy is not effective. II. Why Important The stock market crash has

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    SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET BY JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER COWLES FOUNDATION PAPER NO. 1183 COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS YALE UNIVERSITY Box 208281 New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8281 2006 http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/ SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER* Samuelson has offered the dictum that the stock market is ‘‘micro efficient’’ but ‘‘macro inefficient.’’ That is, the efficient markets hypothesis works much better

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    will try to explain the relationship between the oil prices, gold prices and stock market in the United State using yearly time series data. Since the gold and oil prices are raising their influence on stock market is also increasing and we will see how fluctuations in oil prices and gold prices impact the stock market in the United States. So here oil prices and gold prices will be our explanatory variable and stock market index will be our explained variable. In this study we will use multiple regression

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    Case Problem 1: Measuring Stock Market Risk As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics

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    [Draft-2703 words] - HARVARD REFERENCES STYLE “Are Public Equity Markets in Poland in decline?” ===================================================================== Executive Summary This work analyze the development of the stock market in Poland, between 2000 to the current period. As an explanatory variable, it is used the annually number of IPOs. In fact, there is a positive relationship between the stock market index returns and the number of IPOs. This has been proved by many authors

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    experienced. From the economical adjustments after WW1 and the worker strikes, all the way to the booming economy and eventual crash of the stock market. With that being said, I believe it is safe to say that the 1920s had it’s fair share of ups and downs. Although the 1920s had many great attributes, it is still most widely known for the disastrous stock market crash. After the end of World War 1, the United States of America was in a pit of hurt trying to stabilize the economy again. In the end

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    encompass the importance of the U.S stock market/stock exchange versus the Chinese stock market/ stock exchange, with a brief introduction about how each stock market/stock exchange came into existence, the importance of each stock market/stock exchange, how the U.S and Chinese manage their stock markets/stock exchange, how corporations are appointed plus the rules and regulations. This will also entail random facts about each stock market/stock exchange. Stock markets are like hitting a royal flush,

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