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Welcome to Our Generation USA!

This Main Menu Page Covers all Facets of
Economics,
as Covered Below:

​Click on any of the following blue hyperlinks (1-7) to be taken to that Commerce Web Page's developed entries found further below:
  1. Commerce
  2. Consumers
  3. Business
  4. Labor
  5. Finance
  6. Capitalism
  7. Economy of the United States
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Commerce Web Page: is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services:

Click on any of the following topics to be taken to that web page and details:
  1. Commerce
  2. E-commerce
  3. United States Department of Commerce​
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Consumers Web Page: Includes all of us who buy the products and services of the retail market, along with their regulation by the government and other consumer affairs organizations, e.g. the Better Business Bureau, to ensure fair trade business policies.
  1. Consumers and their Legal Rights
  2. Bureau of Consumer Protection (part of the Federal Trade Commission or FTC)
  3. Online Ad Tracking: why you see ads online from businesses you just visited
  4. Data Mining vs. Right to Privacy
  5. Examples of Data Mining
  6. Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by Bloomberg News and What is "Retail Apocalypse"? (by Wikipedia
  7. Consumer Protection Laws in the United States including Anti-trust Laws and the Federal Trade Commission as well as the Breakup of the AT&T Bell companies in 1982
  8. Anti-competitive Business Practices
  9. Better Business Bureau
  10. Consumers Union and its magazine Consumer Reports
  11. ​Consumer Price Index (CPI)
  12. J. D. Power
  13. Carfax Reports (Covering Used Cars and Light Trucks)
  14. False Advertising and the Truth in Advertising Organization (TINA.org)
  15. Consumer Watchdog Organization
  16. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)



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Business: covers all aspects of business including sales and marketing, Small Business Administration (SBA) and organizations for financial assistance for business start-ups, but also the negative consequences of negative economic results in pursuit of  Corporations' profitability, including down-sizing, outsourcing, and automation over the needs of labor to make a good living.: click on any of the blue hyperlinks below to be taken to that topic:
  1. Business
  2. Best (Business) Practices, including those accredited by the International Standards Organization (ISO)
  3. Small Business Administration
  4. Corporations including a List of Largest Companies (based on revenues)
  5. Retail, including a Partial List of Retail Markets in the United States
  6. Wholesale, including a List of the Top Wholesalers in the United States
  7. Business-to-Business
  8. Real Estate in the United States including a List of Mortgage Lenders of the United States as well as Internet Real Estate
  9. Manufacturing in the United States (Parts 1 & 2)
  10. Manufacturing USA
  11. Service Sector of the United States
  12. Construction in the United States, including a List of Construction Industries
  13. Amazon (Company)
  14. Michael Bloomberg, including his company Bloomberg L.P.
  15. Walmart, the World's Largest Company! (Walmart.com)
  16. Alphabet, Inc. (Google Parent Company)
  17. ​Business Administration
  18. Family Business
  19. Supply Chain Management
  20. United States Chamber of Commerce​
  21. List of Legal Business Categories Impacting the United States
  22. Marketing including Types of Marketing
  23. Digital Marketing
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Labor: covers anyone who has or seeks a job working for a business, whether white collar or blue collar, full-time or part-time, self-employed, or laid off. Includes efforts at vocational training and/or college degrees, or government programs in cooperation with businesses to help re-train workers who lost their jobs due to automation, including vocational training.
  1. ​Employment In the United States
  2. Unemployment in the United States and its Causes,  along with eligibility to realize unemployment benefits through the  Federal Unemployment Insurance Program.
  3. ​The Labor force in the United States
  4. ​Five Facts about Income Equality by PEW Research Center (1/7/2014)
  5. The Negative Impact of Technology on Jobs
  6. Designation of Workers by Color of Collar
  7. U.S. Department of Labor, including The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS)
  8. Labor Unions in the United States including a List of U.S. Labor Unions
  9. Minimum Wage in the United States, and The case for raising the minimum wage keeps getting stronger by CNN Business
  10. American Job Losses due to (a) Computerized Automation and (b) Outsourcing of Jobs
  11. International Standard Classification of Occupations
  12. On-The-Job Training
  13. Offshoring Jobs
  14. Vocational Training including the Top 25 Two-year Trade Schools according to Forbes Magazine.
  15. Living the American Dream vs. Today's Shrinking Middle Income Class
  16. Wage Gap in the United States by Gender
  17. Wage Gap in the United States by Race
  18. Unemployment Rate in the United States by State and Territory
  19. Automation could kill 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030 (USA Today, 11/28/17)
  20. Job Losses due to overseas Outsourcing, including Online Outsourcing
  21. Profession
  22. List of Largest United States Based Employers Globally
  23. History of Labor in the United States
  24. Standard of Living in the United States for Blue Collar vs. White Collar Workers
  25. Are Right to Work Laws bad for Workers?
  26. Women in the workforce, including Labor Feminism, Women in Labor Unions, and Coalition of Labor Union Women
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Finance includes Financial Markets, Instruments, Corporate, Personal​, Public, Banks and Banking, Regulation, and Standards.
  1. Finance, including its Outline and a List of Financial Institutions
  2. ​Financial Management
  3. Corporate Finance
  4. Personal Finance
  5. Banking in the United States, including its History as well as a List of the Largest Banks
  6. Credit Unions in the United States
  7. Federal Reserve System of the United States as: (1) The Monetary Policy of the United States; (2) The United States Dollar; and (3) The United States Mint
  8. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  9. Savings & Loan Association including the Savings & Loan Crisis of the 1980s-1990s
  10. Cryptocurrency including BitCoins
  11. Banking Regulation in the United States, including the Causes of the 2010 Stock Market Crash
  12. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
  13. Digital Currency
  14. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  15. Stock Market Crash and How to Avoid the Next Potential Stock Market Crash (Fortune Magazine 9/2/2015)
  16. Stock Market Index, including a List of Stock Exchanges
  17. Financial Markets, including a List of Stock Exchanges  as well as the Glossary of Stock Market Terms
  18. Commodity Markets, List of Traded Commodities, and Their Commodity Exchanges
  19. Currency, including a List of Circulating Currencies and Their Exchange Rates
  20. Wall Street and The Financial District in Manhattan, including the Wall Street Journal
  21. Taxation in the United States
  22. Investopedia Financial Website
  23. ​Ponzi Schemes, e.g., Bernie Madoff
  24. Bankruptcy in the United States
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Capitalism as Practiced in the United States and Abroad:  Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system, and competitive markets. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investment is determined by the owners of the factors of production in financial and capital markets, and prices and the distribution of goods are mainly determined by competition in the market:
  1. Capitalism as Practiced In a Democracy
  2. Comparison of Free Trade vs. Fair Trade including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  3. Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder​
  4. ​Warren Buffett
  5. Oprah Winfrey
  6. Howard Hughes
  7. George Soros, Billionaire and Philantropist
  8. Keynesian Theory of Economics
  9. Laissez-faire Capitalism
  10. Criticism of Capitalism
  11. List of Largest Companies in the United States based on Total Revenues
  12. Business Magnates, including a List of the World's Billionaires
  13. Elon Musk, Capitalist
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​The Economy of the United States covers not only the Economy of the United States, but also the Impact of Economic Globalization:

  1. The Economy of the United States and the World
  2. Economics and Monetary Policy of the United States, including the President's Council of Economic Advisors
  3. ​Economic History of the United States
  4. ​Ranking of Countries by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) vs. by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
  5. Congressional Budget Office
  6. Income Inequality in the United States
  7. Causes of Income Inequality in the United States and their impact on America's Shrinking Middle Class
  8. ​​​​Widening Gap in Income between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of Americans
  9. ​Economic Globalization
  10. United States Federal Budget
  11. ​Supply and Demand, including the Impact of Covid-19 on Supply and Demand
  12. American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
  13. Macroeconomics vs. Microeconomics
  14. Economic Justice
  15. Economics including a Glossary of Economics Terms
  16. Economists, including a List of Nobel Memorial Prize Laureates in Economics
  17. Economic Systems, including a List of Economic Systems
  18. Economic Model
  19. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
  20. United States Secretary of the Treasury, currently held by Janet Yellen, the 78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  21. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
  22. The Economist (Magazine)
  23. Economics (General)

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