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Showing posts with label Economic Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Development. Show all posts

November 25, 2011

Competitive Economic Development Strategy Ideas

Industry Manufacturing Strategy Ideas:
  • Use available idle American facilities for manufacturing development science research for new materials application and assembly methods while providing testing and technical training for new ideas.
  • The strategic focus is on intensive construction manufacturing engineering for new construction designs and methods [potential science R&D international cooperative for natural resources infrastructure development balancing international society development governance].
  • Integrated development objective for energy science into new construction and product manufacturing design methods. Collaborating interests: (1) Product and Architectural Design professionals; (2) Manufacturing engineering science; (3) Earth and energy science engineering (4) Corporate R&D laboratories with patent rights agreements [international intellectual property rights enforcement strategy].
  • Improve development in Latin America and specific regional American manufacturing capability using comparable technological + scientific required productions. Initiatives financed by American banking system and corporate agreements utilizing related identity American community human capital resources providing economic incentives for continuous  multi-region educational development.
Science and Technology Development Strategy Ideas:
  • A business and technology development plan with New England natural science expertise, U.S. Southwest natural earth resources energy expertise, and U.S. West digital computing systems expertise.
  • Encourage state universities business development centers project idea development teams to include appropriate technical colleges, career interested advanced high school students, and technical / business consultants [expanding collaborations].
  • Cooperative collaborations within a Global Commerce Network Innovative Business Development System ["registered" investment cash flows through banking system].

September 12, 2011

Economic Development Metric and Business Process Profitability


The graphic titles are fairly straight-forward in explaining the consumer market development economic issue. However, I do want to make note of a few references within the Business Process Summary comparisons. The summary total for each process stage is a non-weighted, non-adjusted average of the industry example companies. Europe's Resource Conversion and Distribution column averages would both reflect above 10% adjusting for the negative profit performance industry examples.

A generalized comparison of performance differences among the regions could include the social policy preferences in Europe and the United States; Latin America profitability compared to Human Capital Development; and Asian growth led by China's increasing competitiveness (at this time, mostly government controlled industries) adding to Japan and S. Korea's development history relationship with the United States.


August 15, 2011

Systems of Economic Development

Geometry II: A Continuation of Theorems and Proofs
Literalism and social methods are evident in efforts to maintain a focused ordered ethnic-racial [economic] identity management objective. Heterosexual inter-ethnic sexual morality issues are related to ethnic-racial identity authority for social-political-economic and demographic relationship management. There are over 16 Merriam-Webster human family identity relationship definitions. 

Using fraternal "family" ideology for religious-ethnic-racial relationship leverage is evidence, in my opinion, of attempts to establish universal ideological order similarly related to the historical genetic lineage of my great grandmother and grandmother. It also explains the methodology leverage used in group identity "order beliefs" economics.



June 14, 2011

2010 Banking Performance by Business Segments


Revisiting previous analysis regarding U.S. Banking performance, this update attempts to identify the successful business segments of banking activity. Other presentations reflected the levels of assets accumulated within the banks and profitability [ROA] performance. Using the business segmentation comparison provides more insight into the areas of business investment. Not all annual reporting uses directly comparable terminology for their business segments so, the placement of revenues and profitability may slightly vary. However, a clear idea of bank performance is still evident as Investment Banking (equity underwriting and valuations, M&A); Investing and Lending (trading activities); and Corporate & Consumer Commercial Banking. Included as a result of the analysis are the areas of competing strategic interests and  the profitability of Wealth Management and Global Card Services.


May 16, 2011

Global Economy and Competitive Development [Growth Scenarios]


I am currently using the World Economy Comparison presentations as foundation to model various growth scenarios. The analysis variables are by country / region using economic growth and population growth estimates over a 10-year timeframe. The most likely analysis estimation with the greatest variance to experience is the global rate of population growth. The analysis presumption is that greater economic activity will reduce the rate of population growth which also means an estimated increase in global economic participation. 

This was not planned to be a forecast of the global economic future. However, it was prepared to give perspective on the impact of economic growth relationships and international economic alliances.



April 21, 2011

Business Industry and Profitability


I was recently thinking through the relationships of business, industry, and profitability compared to the general outline used in my blog themes. So, I attempted to categorize a sample of businesses using the Basic Summary of the Business Process to obtain a "rough" measure of corresponding operating profitability. Many arguments can be made for some of the companies in the reflected categories relative to their business and industry contributions. Generalizations on functional identity had to be made and their respective traditional structure definition difficulty "game changing" contributions show in the comparative operating margins. The innovative, integrated nature of many of these companies means that operations encompass more than one of the basic categories and industries.

What becomes very apparent is the impact on profitable return compared to control/ownership of resources: Natural Resources, Intellectual Content, Distribution and Allocation Methods. Although not completely reflected in this summary analysis due to multiple factors including timing is the housing "bubble" impact on industry. Lumber, homebuilders, and realtor businesses are operating at best, break-even. The financial industry which distributed the funds financing the "bubble" seems to have absorbed the industry risk and continue to remain profitable due to their infrastructure role in the US economy [Just a thought!]. Operating margin data used is the latest available reported annual earnings where available (FY2010).



April 2, 2011

Taxation Concept for Competitive Development II


The following presentation updates the Taxation Concept for Global Competitiveness with an idea for how the industry categorization approach could work. Included is a reflection of the current industry tax contribution based upon the Industry Summary of the Top 60 U.S. Companies document previously used in the Corporate Financials blog.

A clarification of the proposal using the “Flat Tax” terminology was not an idea altering the United States' philosophical application of the progressive tax system on earnings. In my opinion, a federal income tax based on sales revenue increases the investment technical calculation breakeven hurdle limiting economic expansion and business creation. Political opposition could easily make the case that the government is placing collection priority ahead of the American people and their earnings.


March 7, 2011

Taxation Concept for Competitive Development


Much of the political debate regarding business policy occurs with differences attributable to the varying “languages” of interest groups and government's comparable functional role. The assumption is that all are working for the future interests of the United States of America. Considering this in addition to the analysis of the current competitive standing of the country illustrated in The Global Competitiveness Report, here are some ideas regarding the taxation and policy debate.

My blog post The United States and Global Competitiveness summarized the common categories for the very top tier countries of competitiveness and personal thoughts on the socio-economic development relationships. The derived conceptual taxation strategy includes these important competitive factors similarly identified in the World Economic Forum’s competitiveness report methodology structure. This proposal creation identifies categories for industry assignment and tax rate development considering: A) Utilization and depletion of resources factoring environmental costs of disaster cleanups and necessary government public safety regulatory concerns; B) derived Infrastructure impact benefits [“hard” costs of interstate maintenance, airport and air safety, national utilities system maintenance and upgrades; “soft” costs of institutional (education and legal) demands on human resources development and general government administration]; C) the American community social and economic development flexible funding for investment into future competitiveness; and D) Security and National Defense interests. The Rate would apply to all industry companies within  the category. 
Currently, the conceived industry category groups are:
Basic Factors                                                  Efficiencies
I.  Natural Resources (Utilization and Depletion)      III. Service Oriented
II. Infrastructure                                                V. Other Pass-through (Income / Consumption) 

Innovation
IV. Knowledge (Education) Based – [Science & Technology Advancement]

This approach incorporates many ideas from the taxation debate and social interest groups to tax industry with equivalent relative matching to the “tax” on global development. The factored “flat rate” for each category includes environmental and social impacts; patriotism for U.S. interests; contribution to U.S. future development while protecting the interest of generational contributions; and redefines the debate terminology with a perspective of all vested interests during times of budget and spending reductions.

January 16, 2011

Development and Economic Policy

The Issue with "Trickle Down" Ideology
Historical economic development of natural resources provided for the continuous improvement of living conditions of humanity through agricultural production, housing, fuels, transportation, and electricity generation among others. Early scale development allowed producers to efficiently grow and provide goods and services for the larger U.S. market. The basis for focused growth was expansion of available skills, training, and education. As human capital development expanded so did opportunities for economic growth and specialization. Consistent with the economic expansion was an evolving, socially inclusive based capital investment allocation via financial markets, entrepreneurial investors, and governments (federal and state). Inclusion of the larger population accelerated market growth and size through expanded wealth distribution and consumption.

Contrary to Democratic societal systems of capitalism, “Trickle Down” economic strategies attempt to consolidate financial capital within a market structure where allocation is focused solely on directed return interests. Benefits of the system "trickle down" to all other economic interests relative to the relationship to financial capital ownership. Another aspect of the ideology is the reduced role of government investment in industry via scientific research and education to provide a more distinctive limitation of Government - Industry regulatory inter-relations. The result of this strategy success would be the accumulation of financial capital within a single industry to determine investment decisions based upon a technical return calculation. Moreover, the country would be further segmented into economic benefit groups relative to development contribution factors limiting economic mobility opportunities.

An example of capital return benefits accumulation follows using a hypothetical scenario of citizen savings/investment and profit (return) distribution given a set of financial industry deposit decisions. In an attempt to reduce complexity, the scenario is based upon the Basic Summary of Business Process graphic presented in earlier discussions. The example analysis basis is the distribution of return on investment within the value chain of banking industry under the “Trickle Down” ideology of capital investment allocations and monetary concentrations (“bubbles”). The example reflects a regional commercial bank return of 15.4% based upon a loan with a 6.8% yield. The difference between the two returns is the accounting calculation. The bank transaction on the balance sheet would include a liability of $1,000,000 (savings/deposit) and assets of $900,000 (IB investment) for a net liability of $100,000 and profit on the liability of $78,503. However, the major point is the difference in return between the savings/investor and the banks (State and Federal Chartered/IB/Hedge Funds) where the proportion of profit sharing may vary somewhere between the 2.5% and 34.9% spread. Explicit in the example are the impacts of pricing gains (valuation) from increasing investment monetary levels and the beneficiaries resulting from the increase and the investment decisions relative to other opportunities. The financial capital concentration signals the need for an adjusted financial system model of “grant” awards identification and investment allocations into other development opportunities greatly expanding the focus.

Graphic documents support and reflect the relationship of topic themes previously discussed for comparison with social organizations, structure, and decision outcome impacts from general stereotype beliefs. I am planning to update the earnings data chart in which I applied the Development Metric methodology for additional commentary on human values, resources and ownership, and limitations (morality) of contractual (industry) terms agreement.


January 4, 2011

World Data Comparison III - Europe Economic Development Metric Analysis

Continuing with the usage of the Development Metric, the country listing from the quadrant analysis in the Social Spending and Economics and Assets and Values postings was amended adding the calculated metric. There were no new surprises but it does provide for a better evaluation, excluding earnings distribution, among the countries.[revision 11/17/2011]

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Updated 1/27/2011: Sorted the European countries listed from the quadrant analysis by the Development Metric. (Note the metric sorted location of Portugal, Greece, Spain, and Italy in the list).

December 17, 2010

World Data Comparison II


While reviewing more data regarding development around the world, I wanted to find some comparative measure for usage when discussing growing economies and global competition. The leading developed nations and economic strengths in North America and Europe are common knowledge. Much attention has been placed upon the growth in developing countries with a current focus on China and Brazil. So, I decided to look at a relative comparison to assess the economic - political positions to society. For integrated societies with comparable stages of development and resources, there always exists the possibility of disagreement which could lead to non-optimal actions impacting global economies. However, the BRIC nations’ growth appears to be a natural stage of economic development consistent with the European and American enlightenment period when investment was focused upon Math, Sciences, and technological advancement. The US is still 4 times the development of China, but population size is important. China’s economy would be ~$60 Trillion at a similar level of development.

This comparison approach measures world economic activity percentage relative to world population percentage. The development position of economic strength increases as each nation educates and creates opportunity for all of its citizens. 


December 15, 2010

U.S.A. Economic Development



Update 12/21/2010: Just wanted to acknowledge the new US Census population data compared to the estimates used in the worksheets and analysis of this post. The estimate used in the analysis from wikipedia was 0.6% greater than the actual count in the 2010 Census. Because the actual population count is less than the estimate, the US measurement metric increased by 0.01 with similar small adjustments to State metric measures. The impact does not change the narrative assessment of the analysis.
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As an extension of previous data analysis of world development, I looked at a comparative assessment of United States economic development as well as some countries around the world using available data from wikipedia and the CIA Fact Book. Primarily, it began as an initiative to find some relative measure to compare activity and levels of development regarding political discussions of states competing for corporate investment. Multiple factors are considered for such activity depending on the objective of the corporation and theoretically, an educated, multi-skilled work force has higher earnings. 

A note of importance: The data is economic activity not individual earnings!

The basic calculation of the measure is the state % of US economic activity divided by the state % of US population [US Basis]. I have additional work on a world basis for the upcoming World Data Comparison II updated blog post. The Development Metric provides a quick comparative level assessment of US development (regions and states). Since the total United States activity is the basis of measurement its metric is 1.00 relative to the individual states, although not reflected for reasons that may be obvious to some. The Metric of 4.44 and 5.37 is the World Economy basis Development Metric.

Obvious economic impacts are (1) the petroleum industry in Texas and Alaska; (2) finance industry in the Northeast; and (3) the political and lobby spending in DC (not a state but included anyway).




November 15, 2010

Social Location and Relationships: Economics, Classic Conditioning, and Social Psychology [Explanations]



The American image has long been that of a “melting pot” [collective inclusion] of cultures in the land of Democracy (rule by the people).  The description is accurate in that the country does include a multitude of ethnicities and cultures combining into the American society. The late 1960s was a time of dramatic cultural change breaking barriers that prevented social collaboration and social integration of the people. Honestly, I believe that the majority of Americans favor diversity and accept interrelations setting aside the hidden economic-corporate social limitation (J.E."Hooverites" secret social policy). Politically they tend to be concentrated in the larger metropolitan areas in America. A conservative coalition has been working to reverse those impacts of change as evident in political public statements and positions referencing days of an era past using religious-economic theory and application, if not completely through legislation. Conservative ideology has strong associations in Southern politics still supporting a broader sense of ideological segregation. Consistent with this ideology embedded in religious confirmations and historical references include recognition of historical “Religious Order” and a reincarnated influence in certain American institutions.

Support for this organizing concept is the expanded structure fraternal system adapted for use by an expanded definition of “Church” assisting in acts and organization. This line of reasoning would affect understanding of relationships between Corporations, Religious Institutions, and Political-Governing-Intelligence systems in violation of Constitutional Democratic principles and provide enlightenment regarding the current population employment status. Most political discussions focus on a racism prospective of Conservatism which does not completely reflect the correct mental framing and allows defense of the criticism using friendly associations. The Conservative perspective is consistent with a “Hierarchal Order” which explains opposition to Diversity, Interracial/Inter-ethnic relationships and leadership, balanced (competitive) ownership of economic resources, and provisions for minimum living standards of humanity (they labeled “socialism”). Furthermore, the “Order” concept is based upon a male controlled “family” leadership economic model allowing the directed subjugation of women and children which would explain infallible individual design; racial “moral traps”; socialization of Black “family” commitment politics; African religious tradition; equality opposition; and sex exploitation to maintain “order.” Using the stated conservative belief in “exceptionalism” overlays the “Order Hierarchy” relationship to global political science. The real question is “Do the ‘Order’ and ‘exceptionalism’ concepts refer to the American systems or the American people?”
Miss Egypt - 2010
The southern influential base of conservative politics is well known and documented. What does not get examined is the impact on Black American politics, education, and intellectual development resulting from historical social location concentration origins in the South. Successful economic ascension after legal rights recognition impacted authority structures including historical “Order” and “family” conceptual definitions. This culturalization of Black America affected identity definitions, expected social behaviors, and economic distributions relative to religious tradition adoptions and cooptation of the Black “family” meaning. Reflected in my blog post themes is recognition of African and Native origins in the populations throughout the Americas commonly referred to as people of color and my new influenced interest in United States Latino colleagues’ cultural history. Unless there is another (prophetic? social policy) reason, the African designated identity specification is redundant particularly given the scientific testing explanation acceptance of the earliest known developments which leads to question the African tradition testimony, purpose of fallibility, ethnic segmentation, and religious emphasis on submission to power and authority. Is this a Southern learned leadership attribute of “dues” or reflection of subjugated frustration? A sample illustration of this social system is reflected in the comparative extrapolation of Classic Conditioning supported by the relationships among Black American fraternal organizations, religion, psychology, corporations, politics, and certain government agencies: 
(Used for Inter-ethnic Relationship Separation through "Church," Corporations, & Politics - Economics and “Order” Concept)
Social Conditioning
Social Conditioning refers to the sociological phenomena characterized by a process of inherited tradition and gradual cultural transmutation passed down through previous generations. Results and impacts of social conditioning are vast, but they are generally categorized as social patterns and social structures.
Shaping
In operant conditioning, the subject must first emit the response that the experimenter plans to reward. Shaping is the name given to those initial steps needed to get the subject to engage in the behavior that is to be rewarded.

Not consistent with religion, enlightenment, and constitutional rights! Conditioning is also reflected in interrelated roles of Corporations, Churches, and political-morality-fraternal order. Evident in clandestine communications monitoring and moral exploitation setups for covert domestic political actions liability coordinated through Southern Social "Family" Councils. These acts all serve the "Solid South" and conservative ideology designed around early segregation and economic order (discrimination) to create an interpreted biblical authority structure and allows the “triangle” manipulation of personal outcomes to blame on a constructed individual morality. Religion is personal!

In the Aerospace industry during times of routine inspection, repair, or overhaul, a process called reverse engineering is employed whenever mechanical aircraft parts are needed without proprietary authority from the creator (OEM) to access design and no inventory. This generally means attempted replication of the original part using trial and error and sometimes original materials are not available. The result is an inexact copy of the original, evolved design of differing (usually lesser) specification standards. This example metaphorically relates to Black “Family” or any other "family" forced solidarity commitment to pacify conservative social reasoning. It is an economical power threat to current ownership profitability and “order” to establish pay equity (gender & ethnicity economic equality) than it is to create or allow 10+ “Family” billionaires.

Concentrated employment control politics has increased unemployment to leverage tax breaks. According to definitive financial theory, required tax reduction to increase employment of capital would indicate that ownership is too concentrated and companies are too big to obtain adequate market returns. 

  
Economic Terms of “Order” and “Family” Concept:
Financial Royalty
"Family?" Inheritance