Savings and Debt

My reaction to this article is that everybody should try to stay out of debt if they can help. When you have credit cards dont use it for everything you want to buy because of the interest rates they charge on the cards. The deeper you get in debt it the hardest thing to get out out of. People get in debt so easiy because they dont realize how much they are really spending on things they buy and they are not watching out for the charges that are hidden in these credit cards. The intrest rates can be different on each credit cards some are hight and some are low but they still can get outrageous with them. Finance charges can be dangerous because the can be price at any amout they want. The can go high as 40% and as low as 10% you just never know what they would charge when you purchase something on credit. Americans dont save any more because they think they need lurxury items and that they can just keep getting money in and spending it and they think saving is by bargining on certain or just saving money on sales that stores are having but that not saving at all. When you save money you put it in a bank account and just keep adding money to it and not spending it like that. You could be saving for your kids college fund but i think we should start saving again because colleges are costing to much to send them away to school. The US compare to China has bad saving habits. China saving rates are at 505 and we are below zero. There are more people living here then in china and we should be just as high as them and not below them. We should try and start saving more and we would not be in so much debt.

Critique of GDP Podcast

Well hello to all I'm going to be critiquing Jared and Mari Podcast. Their podcast is very interesting because it not something you think people can come up with. I personally like how they thought of using the phone to help with there homework because as much we use the phone we should also use it to help with work and study with a partner if y'all cant get together in a certain place. Their content was strong and taught you about what GDP really is and they break it down so you be able to understand what they are talking about in their podcast.The recording was great because it was loud and clear and you can understand what they are saying and you can sit and listen and not get bored on what they are saying. The images were great especially when they are talking on the cellphone with each other it makes it look realistic like it actually happening right then and there.The other images were good expect when they repeated images and they were talking about something else at the time and at the end they should of had pictures of them hanging up the cellphone after they finish the phone call with each other. Their podcast was very different then from most it was creative to have a phone conversation instead of plain boring talking like most podcast are but they thought like true teenagers because we all talk on the phone like everyday.Yes i learned a lil something about how GDP is broken down what trade deficit was and how they calcuate that into the World And the US and that the US has the biggest GDP then come Japan. Well im outie like 5000 or until next time
Signing off Arielle

US Trade Deficit: getting better?

This article is discussing how the more we export the more money we are generating in from the export and the less we important and make out things at home is balancing the trade deficit that the US ecomony is having. Trade Deficit is basically The value of a nation's imports exceeds the value of its exports. The Us trade deficit is likely to go down becuase we make our own things on our soil and we export the things that we make and take in the imports from the other countries we sell out things too. Some Of the products sold over seas are Motorola cellphones, General Motor Cars, CitiGroup is overseas. They say that the Us dollar is not as strong as it us to be. They say that this can help us because we are trying to close the gap between the deficit. The weaker the value the more you can spend on items outside the US.

Taxes - How Does The Government Get Money?

There are many different types of taxes that we are suppose to pay. One of the taxes that we are suppose to pay is the income tax is where you fill out papers that you tell what you spent that whole year and when you finsh that you either get money back or you lose money or get none at all.Everybody suppose to file income tax because the IRS will come looking for you if you dont pay your taxes.Another tax we have to pay Is sales tax when we buy items we have to have sales tax on it. In New York City there is no sales tax on clothes under 110 dollars but when you outside of new york city there sales tax on every thing.

Student Loans - Beware

Some of these Culinary takee out big loans because they want insured that they have a good job as soon as they finish with their schooling. They also take out big loans because the schools cost to much they do not give enough finacial aid. My feelings on student loans are there should be no reason for people take out those who loans and people have to spend the rest of there life paying them off. The intrest rates on these loans are way to high we just coming out of school and we dont have a job right way and your debt is pling up on you. I think they should wait until we have a good job to start adding out debt on us.Yes i do have to take out student loans.I have to take out 2 One is For 2000 and the other is 2500.