Money bills

Notwithstanding the equal authority which will subsist between the two houses on all legislative subjects, except the originating of money bills, it cannot be doubted that the house composed of the greater number of members, when supported by the more powerful states, and speaking the known and determined sense of a majority of the people, will have no... 

About 20% of the total import bill of a country like Britain is spent on engineering materials. Table 2.2 shows how this spend is distributed. Iron and steel, and the raw materials used to make them, account for about a quarter of it. Next are wood and lumber - still widely used in light construction. More than a quarter is spent on the metals copper, silver, aluminium and nickel. All polymers taken together, including rubber, account for little more than 10%. If we include the further metals zinc, lead, tin, tungsten and mercury, the list accounts for 99% of all the money spent abroad on materials, and we can safely ignore the contribution of materials which do not appear on it. 

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On Monday, Luna had 792.78 in her checking account. On Tuesday, she deposited her 1252.60 paycheck. On Wednesday she paid her rent, 650. On Thursday, she paid her electric, cable, and phone bills, which were 79.35, 54.23, 109.56, respectively. How much money is left in Luna s account ... 

A certain power company gives a ly% discount if a customer pays the bill at least ten days before the due date. If Inez pays her 48.50 bill ten days early, how much money will she save, rounded to the nearest cent ... 

The total wage bill is equal to the output of the consumer goods sector (W2). However, if this is the case, where do firms in the investment goods sector get the money to reimburse the banks, thus closing the circuit of... 

Stage 1 At the outset firms in the capital goods sector (sector 1) begin to borrow money from banks in order to finance the wage bill of that sector.5 Out of these wages, workers in sector 1 purchase consumption goods from sector 2. 

A simplification is made possible by noting first that ph, the money value of per capita worker consumption, is the scalar wage rate w (under the assumption that workers do not save). And since wlX is the total wage bill, by decomposition if w = wlX/pX is the share of wages in gross income,... 

Although it is traditional in Marxian frameworks for capitalists to initiate the circulation of money with an advance of constant and variable capital, our previous discussion, in Chapter 4, showed that there are a number of ways in which the circulation of money can be modelled. In the single swap approach all of income is advanced in the Franco-Italian circuit approach only the wage bill is advanced in Nell s mutual exchange approach only wages in the capital goods sector are advanced. Our contribution has been to suggest, under the Kalecki principle (first introduced in Chapter 3), that capitalists advance an amount of money sufficient to realize their profits. This model is predicated on the definition of investment as accumulation of constant and variable capital. 

She sits by her window in the June twilight, the numbness of despair taking possession of her. On the table lies all the money she owns in the world. It is sufficient to cover the few bills she owes, the salary of the woman who has traveled with her as maid and companion, and pay her passage back to her native land. But what then America once reached, where can she go, to whom can she turn The distant relatives, the friends who crowded around her in her days of success, anxiously seeking a smile, a word, a token of her favor, how will they receive her if she goes to them a pauper, a dependent upon their charity There is no one to whom she can turn, no place to which she can go, and as the twilight deepens a heavier blackness settles upon the soul of the girl. 

Eight friends went to a restaurant and decided to split the bill evenly. They included a tip of 10.00, making the total money spent 72.40. How much did each spend before the tip was included ... 

The federal Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act ( Brady Bill ) of 1994 required the chief law enforcement officer of each local jurisdiction to conduct bac%round checks of all persons wishing to buy a firearm, but no federal money was appropriated for the purpose. Two sheriffs, Jay Printz of Ravalli County, Montana, and Richard Mack of Graham County, Arizona, filed separate suits that challenged this provision of the Brady Act, claiming that forcing sheriffs to perform the checks at their own expense went beyond the powers of Congress as restricted by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 

Shortly before our conversation Alison had taken a part-time job with the intention of paying her doctor in full. Indeed, the matter of money led us to the most compelling part of her medication story. She was struggling to honor her medical bills because of her parents deci-... 

You would never have spent so much money on a car, but you ve been able to obtain it for practically nothing. A few months ago while trolling in the Potomac River for murder victims, you hooked something big underwater. A day later you dived, saw the car, and had a friend tow it to shore. Mr. Duchovny, your boss at the FBI, said that because the vehicle identification numbers had been filed off, there was no way to trace the car. There was no sign of foul play—no blood stains or evidence of any kind except for a wet roll of hundred dollar bills you later found hidden beneath the spare tire. Because the police thought the car worthless after being under the river for a few months, they allowed you to keep it. Little did they anticipate your ingenuity for repair. 

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