Joseph asks…
Econ help 10 pts!!!!!!!?
19. (Consider This) Ticket scalping:
a.imposes economic losses on both buyers and sellers.
b.creates economic gains for both buyers and sellers.
c.imposes losses on buyers, but creates gains for sellers.
d.imposes losses on sellers, but creates gains for buyers.
20. Income data that show how total income is distributed as wages, rents, interest, and profits describe the:
a.functional distribution of income.
b.horizontal distribution of income.
c.personal distribution of income.
d.vertical distribution of income.
21. The personal distribution of income in the United States is such that the richest fifth receives about _____ percent of personal income.
a.30
b.40
c.50
d.60
22. Listed in descending order of relative size, households divide their total incomes among:
a.consumption expenditures, saving, and taxes.
b.saving, consumption expenditures, and taxes.
c.consumption expenditures, taxes, and saving.
d.taxes, consumption expenditures, and saving.
23. The majority of personal consumption expenditures go to purchase:
a.nondurable goods.
b.durable goods.
c.capital goods.
d.services.
24. In economics, a business establishment that owns one or more plants is called a(n):
a.industry.
b.shop.
c.conglomerate.
d.firm.
25. The advantages of the corporate form of business include:
a.the ability to raise financial capital by selling stocks and bonds.
b.the fact that owners are subject to unlimited liability.
c.the elimination of the principal-agent problem.
d.single taxation of corporate earnings.
26. The owners of a firm face unlimited liability for the firm’s debts in:
a.a corporation.
b.a proprietorship, but not in a partnership.
c.a partnership, but not in a proprietorship.
d.both a proprietorship and a partnership.
27. Government may lessen income inequality by:
a.providing transfer payments to the poor.
b.directly modifying market prices as, for example, by establishing a legal minimum wage.
c.using the tax system to tax the wealthy relatively more heavily than the poor.
d.doing all of the above.
28. Negative externalities arise:
a.when firms pay more than the opportunity cost of resources.
b.when the demand curve for a product is located too far to the left.
when firms “use” resources without being compelled to pay for their full costs.
only in capitalistic societies.
29. Which of the following is a public good?
a.chewing gum
b.bread
c.a professional baseball game
d.street lights in a city
30. In performing its stabilization function it may be appropriate for government to:
a.increase both government spending and taxes when the economy is experiencing rapid inflation.
b.reduce government spending and increase taxes when the economy experiences substantial unemployment.
c.increase government spending and reduce taxes when the economy experiences rapid inflation.
d.increase government spending and reduce taxes when the economy experiences substantial unemployment.
31. Government transfer payments:
a.have been virtually eliminated by Federal revenue sharing.
b.have virtually no effect on the distribution of income.
c.make the distribution of income less equal.
d.make the distribution of income less unequal.
32. The three most important sources of Federal tax revenue in order of descending importance are:
a.sales, payroll, and personal income taxes.
b.personal income, corporate income, and sales taxes.
c.personal income, corporate income, and payroll taxes.
d.personal income, payroll, and corporate income taxes.
33. A progressive tax is such that:
a.tax rates are higher the greater one’s income.
b.the same tax rate applies to all income receivers, so that the rich pay absolutely more taxes than the poor.
c.entrepreneurial income is exempt from taxation.
d.the revenues it yields are spent on transfer payments.
34. Government lotteries are:
a.used by a large number of states to supplement their tax revenues.
b.illegal in the United States, but are a common source of revenue in other countries.
c.used by local governments, but not by state governments.
d.a form of progressive taxation.
35. The physical export of motorcycles from the United States to Mexico best illustrates a:
a.trade flow.
b.resource flow.
c.financial flow.
d.technology flow.
36. About half of United States international trade is with:
a.other industrially advanced capitalist countries.
b.the OPEC countries.
c.developing countries.
d.Russia and China.
37. In recent years the United States has:
a.exported more goods and services than it has imported.
b.imported more goods and services than it has exported.
c.realized an approximate balance in its imports and exports.
d.experienced a falling absolute dollar amount of imports and a rising absolute dollar amount of exports.
financi4 answers:
Oh yeah… Let me just read through all that and do your homework for you..
Paul asks…
To lower the cost of gas, should the US Government impose a tax on purchases of Oil as a commodity?
or as someone else suggested increase the margin requirments to make trades on barrels of oil —forcing indviduals or groups to have more money to get into the oil speculation game. (I am still chewing on that idea. I think companies would still offer ways to work around that.)
I obviously don’t mean “tax gas” and I am not talking about taxing Oil company’s profits as some have — I think that would be passed on as higher gas prices.
Unlike the “winfall profit tax” idea, I am talking about taxing people who really have no role in the production of Oil, therefore the costs of the tax would not be passed on to us.
I mean impose a fee on each purchase of oil on the markets. Make it painful for an investor to buy oil as a commodity. Create a financial incentive for investors to invest in other commodities or stocks or bonds. If they want to still invest in Oil, make it seem obvious that they get to keep more of a return investing in oil companies rather than the oil itself.
Headline news reported today that it costs $50 to produce a barrell of Oil. Other reports suggest that the cost of a barrel for US Oil companies is much, much lower cost
At $50 a barrell, I would think Oil should be selling at around $55-75 a barrell. Oil was selling at $139 a barrell 2 days ago. Headline news says speculation on barrells of Oil as commodities have driven up the cost of oil, not shortages in production or refinement capacity.
So why not pass legislation that makes SPECULATION on Oil a ton less lucrative?
I am not an economist (probably Obviously to you folks) but I am quite interested in your opinions on what —if anything — should be done about the climbing cost of Oil.
I mean if you drill more, OPEC will just cut production — what should be done?
financi4 answers:
Most oil is coming into the country from outside the U.S. The US oil companies buy it from OPEC and import it. OPEC isn’t going to lower its prices to the oil companies just because the US passes a tax, so it will be US oil companies will pay the tax. Since all the oil companies would have to pay the tax, it would get passed on. As far as oil trading goes…they can just move it out of the U.S. NYMEX is the major futures player in that market now…but traders trade where the cost is less. Make it too expensive, and that business will move to London. Ditto margin requirements. That business can be done anywhere…nothing says it has to be done in the U.S, and your regs won’t stop oil speculation…just cost the US the business and jobs.
Truth is that there isn’t really much that can be done about oil prices. Increases in demand have been outstripping increases in supplies for years. Now we’ve getting to a point where demand exceeds supply, and there is starting to be a shortage. That’s what is causing oil prices to rise. Oil prices are very inelastic, which means that it takes large increases in prices to drop demand a little bit. If prices stay up, people will buy smaller cars, and conserve more, which will start to drop demand more. US demand has actually been dropping for a while. However, emerging countries such as China and India will continue to increase their demand, so the market will remain tight. We may see some short term drops in prices, but the long term trend is going to be higher. Supplies just aren’t going up very fast. There are some new fields in Brazil and in Saudi Arabia, but existing fields production declines over time, so it will take significant new discoveries even to keep worldwide production where it is. One of the politicians down in Brazil says one of the fields down there has 32 billion barrels of oil. But the world is using 31 billion barrels a year. ANWR would only be 10 billion barrels…about 4 months of world supply and only about 18 months of US usage…a drop in the bucket, so to speak. Long term, the solution is developing alternative energy sources, but that isn’t going to happen right away. We need to develop long range strategies for getting away from oil…maybe with oil prices the way they are now, companies will have an incentive to do that.
Last note…I’ve followed oil since the 70’s…OPEC has never really worked. Someone has always cheated. The reason OPEC is working now is because nobody’s able to cheat…everyone but Saudi Arabia is running at full production.
Richard asks…
Ok, I am disabled, on Medicaid (which really sucks) for a spinal injury. I have a sister who collects SSDI,and?
has an IQ of 70. She is retarded.My mother is 84, she lost her husband (my real father) 2 yrs ago. The house we live in is reversed mortgaged. The house is worth $345,000.00.There is no accounts or life insurance, no stocks, no bonds, no cash. Mom has a revocable trust and is 1 step away from a nursing home scenario. How do I help her get the funds from the reverse mortgage into an irrevocable trust for my sister and myself so when mom enters a nursing home, the spend down will NOT eat away the only asset mom has for the benefit of her daughter and myself. Sister has never worked 1 day in her pathetic life and can’t, and I used to be a somebody till I had lost all my assets(house, car, truck, 2 motorcycles, and close to $500,000.00 in cash) from the wrong decisions and choices.I have multiple torn and ruptured disks from lifting and carrying my 86 yr old wheelchair bound dialysis patient dad for 2 years.. Where do I go from here? What can be done? How can I save the Farm, when I can’t even find a decent surgeon on Medicaid? All relatively knowledgeable answers will be considered. I guess you can call this the HAIL MARY PASS looking for a touchdown to win the game. Then I’m spent. I’m oh so tired. I can’t go on.
financi4 answers:
Take really good care of your mom, because if she does successfully move her money she may not be eligible to have medicaid/medicare pay for her nursing home care.
Both have a period of time called “look back.” This is when they “look back” over a previous period of times and see what assets you may have given away. In most states it is 30 months, some 36, and in California 60.
So lets say for the sake of argument (and math ease) your mom gave away 100,000 worth of assets. Cost of nursing home care is $3,000 a month or $36,000 a year. WIth that 100,000 she could have paid for 33 1/3 months of care with that money. So in no state would she get her nursing care paid for in at least 30 months.
As to her home – in some states that can be transfered ownership to you and she would not be penalized. But in some states they count the value of the home as an asset. Http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:-tAxQXPC42IJ:www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/publications/docs/adm/96adm8.pdf+OBRA+93&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
To be exempt from this, you do not need (or want) an irrevocable trust, you need a special needs trust. You need a lawyer who specializes in these type of trusts to assure that it is created ironclad. Http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/975226/exceptions_to_obra_93_the_special_needs.html
Ken asks…
Economic homework help ! 10 pts!?
19. (Consider This) Ticket scalping:
a.imposes economic losses on both buyers and sellers.
b.creates economic gains for both buyers and sellers.
c.imposes losses on buyers, but creates gains for sellers.
d.imposes losses on sellers, but creates gains for buyers.
20. Income data that show how total income is distributed as wages, rents, interest, and profits describe the:
a.functional distribution of income.
b.horizontal distribution of income.
c.personal distribution of income.
d.vertical distribution of income.
21. The personal distribution of income in the United States is such that the richest fifth receives about _____ percent of personal income.
a.30
b.40
c.50
d.60
22. Listed in descending order of relative size, households divide their total incomes among:
a.consumption expenditures, saving, and taxes.
b.saving, consumption expenditures, and taxes.
c.consumption expenditures, taxes, and saving.
d.taxes, consumption expenditures, and saving.
23. The majority of personal consumption expenditures go to purchase:
a.nondurable goods.
b.durable goods.
c.capital goods.
d.services.
24. In economics, a business establishment that owns one or more plants is called a(n):
a.industry.
b.shop.
c.conglomerate.
d.firm.
25. The advantages of the corporate form of business include:
a.the ability to raise financial capital by selling stocks and bonds.
b.the fact that owners are subject to unlimited liability.
c.the elimination of the principal-agent problem.
d.single taxation of corporate earnings.
26. The owners of a firm face unlimited liability for the firm’s debts in:
a.a corporation.
b.a proprietorship, but not in a partnership.
c.a partnership, but not in a proprietorship.
d.both a proprietorship and a partnership.
27. Government may lessen income inequality by:
a.providing transfer payments to the poor.
b.directly modifying market prices as, for example, by establishing a legal minimum wage.
c.using the tax system to tax the wealthy relatively more heavily than the poor.
d.doing all of the above.
28. Negative externalities arise:
a.when firms pay more than the opportunity cost of resources.
b.when the demand curve for a product is located too far to the left.
when firms “use” resources without being compelled to pay for their full costs.
only in capitalistic societies.
29. Which of the following is a public good?
a.chewing gum
b.bread
c.a professional baseball game
d.street lights in a city
30. In performing its stabilization function it may be appropriate for government to:
a.increase both government spending and taxes when the economy is experiencing rapid inflation.
b.reduce government spending and increase taxes when the economy experiences substantial unemployment.
c.increase government spending and reduce taxes when the economy experiences rapid inflation.
d.increase government spending and reduce taxes when the economy experiences substantial unemployment.
31. Government transfer payments:
a.have been virtually eliminated by Federal revenue sharing.
b.have virtually no effect on the distribution of income.
c.make the distribution of income less equal.
d.make the distribution of income less unequal.
32. The three most important sources of Federal tax revenue in order of descending importance are:
a.sales, payroll, and personal income taxes.
b.personal income, corporate income, and sales taxes.
c.personal income, corporate income, and payroll taxes.
d.personal income, payroll, and corporate income taxes.
33. A progressive tax is such that:
a.tax rates are higher the greater one’s income.
b.the same tax rate applies to all income receivers, so that the rich pay absolutely more taxes than the poor.
c.entrepreneurial income is exempt from taxation.
d.the revenues it yields are spent on transfer payments.
34. Government lotteries are:
a.used by a large number of states to supplement their tax revenues.
b.illegal in the United States, but are a common source of revenue in other countries.
c.used by local governments, but not by state governments.
d.a form of progressive taxation.
35. The physical export of motorcycles from the United States to Mexico best illustrates a:
a.trade flow.
b.resource flow.
c.financial flow.
d.technology flow.
36. About half of United States international trade is with:
a.other industrially advanced capitalist countries.
b.the OPEC countries.
c.developing countries.
d.Russia and China.
37. In recent years the United States has:
a.exported more goods and services than it has imported.
b.imported more goods and services than it has exported.
c.realized an approximate balance in its imports and exports.
d.experienced a falling absolute dollar amount of imports and a rising absolute dollar amount of exports.
financi4 answers:
Not hundred percent sure but here are my picks
19–D
20–either A or C
24–C?
25–A
26–C?
29–D
33–A
sorry can’t help better than that or more sure of the answers
Thomas asks…
Some people are saying that Hillary Clinton is increasingly likely to be the next president…60% chance?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff163.html
Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States. The price of her nomination contract on Intrade has jumped to the 60 area, meaning she has a 60 percent chance of winning the nomination. No one else is even close. The market thinks that Bill Richardson is likely to be her running mate. Speculators think that this ticket will win the election, although they are not as sure of that. They are very sure that Democrats will retain both Senate and House control.
A Clinton II presidency will affect taxes, stock and bond prices, dollar and gold prices, and a great deal else. Speculators and planners will be watching closely her every word in order to discern the material impacts of her possible policies. Long before she is elected, asset prices will begin to move in anticipation of potential legislation and policy changes. There are certain areas that Hillary Clinton is very interested in that will affect many Americans and the portfolios of many Americans.
Interesting questions arise. Will Bill Clinton serve in a new Clinton administration? Will he have a marked influence on Hillary’s policies? Will her fiscal and monetary policies look like his? Will she be her own woman?
I will briefly summarize a few of Hillary’s currently indicated directions. This usually is a valuable exercise. Elected officials often follow the signals they emit during their campaigns. But it is an iffy exercise. Events overtake a president and lead to unexpected twists and turns. I also cannot resist offering a few of my own jaundiced reflections. It is extremely difficult to watch multiple American tragedies unfolding before our eyes and not say something about them. And who knows? Maybe Hillary or someone close to her will read this and see some light.
Hillary would like to end the war in Iraq. Bill Richardson even more plainly wants to end it. The idea is to shift the $450 billion going into warfare into domestic concerns like health care, education, and energy. Such a platform is a sure winner. But Richardson as Vice-President will have limited influence. Hillary will find herself drawn into the foreign policy game just as her husband was.
Hillary as President will curtail U.S. military operations in Iraq but not end them. She has promised to end the war, but at the same time she promises to transform and continue it. She says she will retain a significant force and continue to try to produce country-wide military and police forces, attack terrorists, and provide materiel. She will call for more equipment for the area and fewer personnel. She will talk tough to Iraq’s leaders.
Her promise to end the war is an empty one. Since she and the U.S. establishment want to produce a stable Iraq allied to the U.S., she can’t end the war because that will produce the opposite consequences. Iraq will disappear and be replaced by a partitioned country with many frictions: between Iranian and Iraqi Shiites, between Iraqi Shiite factions, between Sunnis and Shiites, between Turkey and Kurds, etc. The bloodthirsty terrorists of Al-Qaeda will ally themselves with whomever they can to lever their position.
Events in Iraq are unpredictable. Both the U.S. and Hillary are willing hostages to them. Even under the cover of a democracy, a strong man could arise, another Saddam. Which way will Hillary go? Will she bite the bullet and withdraw, letting the chips fall where they may? Or will she succumb to the urge to shape events and control Iraq’s future? Like her husband, she will do both. She will straddle the issue. Just as he bombed and bombed, she will try to substitute equipment for manpower. She will withdraw some men but not all; and she will not withdraw power and interference. She will compromise between those voices urging faster exit and those counseling disaster if she withdraws too quickly. In other words, the war will drag on until the balance of power shifts to install a regime or regimes that keep power.
Hillary on the Iraq War is a continuing disaster. She will not exercise a foreign policy leadership that will make a real difference. She has already joined others in her party who promise to heat up U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. Adjacent Pakistan also continues to heat up as another hot spot.
On energy, Hillary is a booster of the Apollo Alliance. She supports renewable energy sources, ethanol, biofuels, clean coal, and measures to reduce global warming, which are all popular but costly, wasteful, and ineffective ideas. None of these measures will reduce America’s oil dependence, as she claims to want. Only a big shift into nuclear power will accomplish that. However, she is at best lukewarm and/or really cold on nuclear power plants. She thinks the public is against them (“so hard to site them”) and that they cost too much (“so hard to fund them.”) Since she could exercise leadership on nuclear power and isn’t, she is unlikely to go in that direction. Instead, in a speech on Feb. 26, 2007, she called for an Apollo Project for energy that would end “tax breaks for big oil” and subsidize research and development of clean fuels.
Hillary on energy is a disaster, but so has been every administration for a long time. U.S. energy policy is a huge and stupid tragedy, and Hillary will play a lead role in continuing it.
Hillary hasn’t moved an inch on HillaryCare. The Congress, with benighted public support, has moved in her direction, enacting universal health care piece by piece. Hillary will extend health care benefits and introduce price controls on insurers. She wants full and universal coverage for all Americans. On paper everyone will have health care. In reality, there will be rationing and price controls. American health care will deteriorate even further. Will Americans care? Will they fly to India or Thailand where they can get better, faster, and cleaner health care? Hardly likely. Unlike Canadians suffering with their national health care system who have been coming here, where will Americans turn? They will wait, suffer, and die before their time. The only bright side is that this will provide a background for those who see some advantage in running against the system and drastically changing it. Nothing less will suffice at this point than completely dismantling the health care monstrosity.
Hillary on health care is a continuing disaster. George Bush II played his role in this tragedy by introducing the prescription drug benefit and failing to reform the system in any way.
In another sign that she does not understand economics and/or wants to make political hay, Hillary wants women by law to be paid the same as men are. This sounds good to untutored American ears, who think this is a matter of simple justice. However, if women were systematically being underpaid for no good reasons, wouldn’t those same businessmen who are supposed to be so greedy rush in and hire them at $0.75 on the dollar? Shawn Ritenour explains some of those good reasons for men-women pay differentials here, and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains that “never-married women of comparable education and experience and who work full time have the same incomes as their male counterparts” here. Raising women’s pay above the market level that takes into account compensating differentials (related to such factors as on-the-job training, length of tenure, job interruption, and time spent with family) will put women out of work.
In an interesting pair of contradictory statements from the Hillary campaign site from which I draw her positions, we are told that “Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman’s right to choose.” Hillary favors Roe v Wade. She is in favor of abortion. But a few sentences later we read this: “As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity.” Apparently, babies in the womb do not count as Americans. Moreover, Hillary is known as a champion of children: “America is ready for a president who fights for our children.” She has a long slate of legislation relating to children, including a new proposal to extend pre-kindergarten schools to all 4-year-olds. Why then does she not favor the babies who would be born? Maybe it’s because they can’t vote.
Hillary on the American family is yet another continuing disaster. In the Clinton II realm, the government will step up its invasion of the family. The State long ago crossed the boundary into American family life in a largely unnoticed and unheralded stealth invasion. Hillary will extend the State’s victory over the American family and consolidate that control.
Like all presidents, Hillary can be counted on to push for a number of favorite hobby-horses. Hers are many. They include public schools in overseas countries, support of Israel, government reform, voting reform (including same-day registration and an Election Day holiday), and working with the U.N.
Political government under Hillary will grow larger, just as it has under just about every president ever elected. This process can go on for some time as there is a lot of ruin in a country. When major American establishment figures start talking different games than the ones we’ve been hearing for the last 100 years, then we’ll know that some real change is in the air. This has not happened yet. In the meantime, the only consolation is that the State is running into diminishing returns. We can see this in the projected deficits to fund the government’s programs. We can see it in the difficulties and cutbacks in countries overseas. Economics is a constraint on how far the State can go. Clinton II will be operating under constraints. Unfortunately, they are not yet tight enough to prevent her from continuing the tragic policies of her predecessors and placing her own personal stamp upon them.
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Mitt Romney would lose against her. Giuliani would lose against her. Thompson would lose against her. The only people I could see beating her are possibly Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. What do you think?
financi4 answers:
Man took me longer to read this than to answer it.
Hillary is a communist and a socialist. She is gonna ruin the economy and embarrass the United States. If we don’t do anything to lower that number from 60 down to like 30 or 20, then we are all doomed to a major depression in the US.
Hillary is a DW a Disaster Warning.
Her chances are so high because so many idiots in America support her and want to see this nation get worse.
Start saving your money now. Tighten your belt now and learn how to be conservative. You will need the money more than anything when she takes office. Build up your investments til then. Then sit in cash during her presidency.
Michael asks…
I need help journalizing these transactions:?
a.) issued 14,500 shares of $30 par common stock at $48, receiving cash.
b.) issued 8,000 shares of $120 par preferred 6% stock at $130, receiving cash.
c.) issued $8,000,000 of 10-year, 7%bonds at 110, with interest payable semiannually.
d.) declared a dividend of $.65 per share on common stock and $1.80 per share on preferred stock. On the date of record, 120,000 shares of common stock were outstanding, no treasury shares were held, and 22,500 shares of preferred stock were outstanding.
e.) paid the cahs dividends declared in (d)
f.) purchased 12,000 shares of Avocado Corp. at $31 per share, plus a $2,400 brokerage commission. The investment is classified as an available-for-sale investment.
g.) purchased 9,500 shares of treasury common stock at $52 per share.
h.) purchased 340,000 shares of Amigo Co. stock directly form the founders for $21 per share. Amigo has 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding. Jordon Products Inc treated the investment as an equity method investment.
i.) Declared a 2% stock divided on common stock and a $1.80 cash dividend per share on preferred stock. On the date of record, 120,000 shares of common stock had been issued, 9,500 shares of treasury stock were held, and 22,500 shares of preferred stock had been issued.
j.) Issued the stock certificates for the stock dividends declared in (h) and paid the cash dividends to the preferred stockholders.
k.) received $272,000 dividend from Amigo Co. investment in (h)
l.) Purchased $86,000 of Game Gear Inc. 1-year, 6% bonds, directly from the issuing company at par value, plus accrued interest of $950. The bonds are classifed as a held-to-maturity long-term investment.
m.) Sold, at $59.50 per share. 3,800 shares of treasury common stock purchased in (g).
n.) Received a dividend of $1.45 per share from the Avacodo Corp. investment in (f).
o.) Sold 2,000 shares of Avocado Corp. at $32.80, including commission.
p.) Recorded the payment of semiannual interest on the bonds issued in (c) and the amortization of the premium for six months. The amortization was determined using the straight-line method.
q.) Accrued interest for three months on the Game Gear Inc. bonds purchased in (1).
r.) Amigo Co. recorded total earnings of $478,000. jordon Products recorded equity earnings for its share of Amigo Co. net income.
s.) the fair value for Avocado Corp. stock was $28.50 per share on December 31, 2010. The investment is adjusted to fair value using a valuation allowance account. Assume the Valution Allowance for Avaible-for-Sale Investments had a beginning balance of zero.
Please show calculations(:
financi4 answers:
With this many transactions, you can’t expect anyone here to do all of it for you. Post your answers and I’m sure someone will help guide you.
James asks…
Making Board Game Pieces…?
I’m currently working on a board game, and I need a better way of creating certain pieces. My old method consisted of gluing card-stock to foam-board. The down fall to this is that I’m using many of these pieces, and while light, they take up a bit of space (Height being the main concern). These pieces are 3×3 inches, and with the foam-board, roughly 1/8 inches tall.
My new design involves the use of chip-board (or possibly a better recommended media from someone here). It’s much thinner, more sturdy, and looks more official. My only issue is getting the graphics on the pieces in such a way that they won’t easily come off.
My thoughts are that regular paper is too weak and crisp, and card-stock is a bit too thick and again, crisp. I don’t have too much experience with making board games, but I’ve already got a design going. I can get my hands on any tools needed (My main tools are an Exacto-Knife and Elmer’s Glue). If you can think of any good media for the base of the pieces or a better bonding agent, I’d love to hear it.
Thanks in advance.
financi4 answers:
I made some replacement chits for one of my games using card stock and sticker sheets which are available at most warehouse stores (target, walmart, etc) but can definitely be found at an office supply store. Then for a nice finish i used a sticky laminate sheet to give it a glossed finish.
Donald asks…
Help with spending a million?
OK I need the ideas done by tonight 5/16/11 any later ideas will not count I need websites now to the rules I have to spend a million dollars now nor rated R movies games or explicative lyrics I can only spend 100,000$ in each subject I already have a house and car and fitness stuff I can donate 200,000$ to charity need to know the name of it no strippers or stocks and bonds I think thats it thanks for helping
financi4 answers:
New tractor, combine, Cheaper models, New tractor& trailer rig for the farm, Grain Augers, New pole barn, Reroof old barn. Refence the place, Some odd and end equipment, Keep the $200000, for a new well, windows for the house, redig the pond, Take about 2 hours to spend.
David asks…
i have some money questions?
I’m 16 years old and want to get as much information on making a good future as I can.
Many of my friends are thinking about video games and sex,but I know that the decisions I make now will have an impact. All I want to know is when I get out of college and land a stable job,what should I do with my money such as mutual funds or getting involved in stocks and bonds? any investing advice would be helpful
financi4 answers:
Start to educate yourself about investing. Here are 3 excellent books any library should have; two easy reads, the last more difficult but worth it.
One Up On Wall Street – Peter Lynch
A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton Malkiel
The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
Some of the “Dummies” books are supposed to be okay. Too late for my use, but perhaps helpful for you.
Some websites for mutual funds have decent educational material. Try Vanguard or Fidelity.
Even if you do not choose a college major in an investing area, there are some courses that would be valuable both personally and professionally.
Economics – both micro and macro
Accounting – very versatile, useful in almost any career
Finance – particularly a course relating to portfolio management
Statistics – like Accounting, valuable in many ways
Best of luck.
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