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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Inflation is in the hot seat heading into November’s election. But it’s not budging as fast as President Joe Biden would probably like. Everyone is worried about inflation.
Chapter 25, "A Note on Books", recommends several books for those interested in further reading on economics. He suggests some intermediate-length works, such as Frederic Benham's "Economics" and Raymond T. Bye's "Principles of Economics," as well as older books like Edwin Canaan's "Wealth" and John Bates Clark's "Essentials of Economic Theory."
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History is a scholarly work by historian David Hackett Fischer, published in 1996 by Oxford University Press.. Hackett Fischer identified three complete monetary waves in European history, each consisting of a price revolution, featuring high inflation, followed by a war crisis, followed by a new equilibrium.
The uber-wealthy investor is thrifty with just about everything, from his breakfast to his house.
The cost of low inflation would have been unemployment rates of 14% over the past two years, columnist Michael Hicks writes. Hicks: Everyone hates high inflation. High unemployment would be worse.
Over the holding periods of decades, inflation-adjusted house prices have increased less than 1% per year. [74] [104] Robert Shiller shows [74] that over long periods, inflation adjusted U.S. home prices increased 0.4% per year from 1890 to 2004, and 0.7% per year from 1940 to 2004.
Not to pick on L.A. schools or students: Grade inflation is omnipresent and more common in affluent areas. To avoid discouraging students, some school districts did away with D and F grades .