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- Creators: Simonson, Mark
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It is evident that this generation of young people are buried in debt, both during college and the years after graduating. There is lots of talk about the problem, but not much talk about the solution. I created a video blog (vlog) that is about personal finances targeted at college students and recent college graduates. The videos cover different topics in each video, on things from saving to investing to budgeting and others. I tried to make it both funny and informative, so that it would not be boring to watch and each video would be easy to learn from. I made 10 videos in total, putting out one video per week. The blog can be found at : wherethisdoughgo.blogspot.com
ContributorsStaley, Matthew Michael Gallagher (Author) / Budolfson, Arthur (Thesis director) / Simonson, Mark (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor)
Created2014-05
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I will begin my paper by briefly describing the background which led to this paper, as well as stating my thesis. Next, I will define the term terrorism and explain the difference between it and the associated terms of insurgency and guerrilla warfare. Further, I will briefly go over the history of terrorism and the methods employed by terrorist organizations. After this introductory element, I will proceed to explore how terrorism has been funded in the past and how it is being funded at present. Lastly, I will present an overview of future methods of financing and make a proposal as to how the United States and the rest of the world could possibly disrupt these forms of financing. This paper is not intended to be comprehensive in nature, as this would be too large in scope, but rather use specific examples to illustrate certain methods and uses of terrorist financing
ContributorsWonderly, Frank (Author) / Simonson, Mark (Thesis director) / Smith, Geoffrey (Committee member) / Department of Military Science (Contributor) / School of Accountancy (Contributor) / Department of Finance (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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Blockchain technology is becoming the new platform for the future of money as a means of payment. It was originally developed to support the cryptocurrency (bitcoin) functionality and improve the way of doing business. However, with its versatility, it has evolved into a multifunctional innovation that can be being applied in different non-business sectors that have a great impact on the economy. I will review some aspects of the economy that are likely to be impacted like the role of a centralized monetary system, need for regulation in business and role of business innovation in the economy. Moreover, I will investigate its impact in emerging markets because unlike the developed economies, emerging markets have greater potential to expand as they still have increasing returns to scale and rapidly growing. Some of the ways that this occurs include cost reduction in financial market and cross-border payments, faster international remittances, and curbing problems like corruption. The paper concludes that there are no much prospects on the expectations of the technology in the African economy because of the challenges in adopting it like scalability, conservativeness of the society to incubate new technology, and lack of infrastructure to support the new technology.
ContributorsJohn, Teresia Mawia (Author) / Pereira, Claudiney (Thesis director) / Mendez, Jose (Committee member) / Department of Economics (Contributor) / Department of Finance (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-05