Financing the American Consumer.

Ceo vs. Consumer Confidence: Investment, Financing, and Firm Performance

We examine the effect of aggregate measures of CEO and consumer confidence on firm financing and investment. We find that capital expenditure, merger activity, and financing activity all increase with CEO and consumer confidence. However, while CEO confidence positively predicts future sales growth and return on assets, consumer confidence is negatively related to these performance measures as ...

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Immunization financing: key area for American Academy of Pediatrics advocacy.

After reading these very informative articles, I cannot help but imagine that, if I were a business person charged with organizing a pediatric practice, I would immediately eliminate immunizations from the menu of services offered. However, immunizations are the most effective public health tool ever invented. They are the backbone of preventive pediatrics and the most valuable “carrots” pediat...

Wal-Mart, American consumer citizenship, and the 2008 recession

This article explores dominant ideological framings of the economic crisis that began in 2008, by examining shifting meanings of consumer citizenship in the US. The consumer citizen was a central figure in Keynesian ideology—one that encapsulated important assumptions about the proper relationship between production and consumption and the appropriate arenas for citizen engagement with the econ...

The Informed Consumer is a Healthy Consumer? - The American Obesity Epidemic and the Federal Menu Labeling Law