Economics

How Does Inflation Affect The Business?

Businesses face higher raw material, manufacturing, and overhead costs when prices rise. While passing all expenses to consumers may appear to leave a business largely unscathed, in reality, businesses will absorb a portion, if not the majority, of the additional prices to avoid losing customers. Consumers’ purchasing power erodes as inflation rises; in plain terms, […]

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How Did The Global Economic Recession Affect China?

This article presents a brief overview of China’s growing prominence in the global economy and explores the global financial crisis’ spillover implications on China’s financial markets and macroeconomy. Alternative methods of estimating these effects are presented and critiqued. China, contrary to common belief, was hit particularly hard by the global recession brought on by the

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