Finances essays

This paper aims to examine the effect of the spread of Covid-19 on the Egyptian companies trading in stock markets. The outcome of such an infectious disease is regarded as serious. It actually affected stock markets worldwide. Using an event study method, our results indicate that the stock markets in major affected countries and areas fell quickly after the spread...

Have you ever thought of how money started? Well, it all started with bartering. People use to swap their goods for the other persons goods. Bartering turned to coins. The first coin ever minted featured a roaring lion created by King Alyattes in Lydia now known as Turkey. Coins then turned into bank notes around 1661 AD. In 1950 credit...

The impact of a changing demographic structure on the price of financial assets, especially stock prices has been the subject of extensive research and discussion for some time (Quayes & Jamal, 2014). Data gathered from the U.S Census estimated there were 65 million US born baby boomers accounting for more than 20% of the US population in 2014 (Colby &...

Gold’s Gym, originally started by Joe Gold, is an American chain of international co-ed fitness centers. He opened the first Gold's Gym, with homemade equipment, in August 1965, in Venice Beach, California, way before gyms existed. The gym got popular when it was in a documentary, ‘Pumping Iron’ (1977), and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dave Draper used to train there. Each...

Money can give you joy and happiness, but not all happy moments last forever. According to, Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven of the University of Colorado, “Doing things can bring us more joy than having things. Our preoccupation with stuff obscures an important truth: the things that don’t last create the most lasting happiness”. Money can certainly get you a...

Introduction The influx of Chinese miners during the Australian gold rushes of the 19th century marked a significant chapter in both Australian history and the global narrative of migration and labor. Predominantly arriving in the mid-1800s, these miners faced a myriad of challenges that were both socio-economic and cultural. The treatment they received was often fueled by xenophobia and economic...

1.6 billion people are homeless in the world (“As Cities Grow, So Do the Numbers of Homeless.”). Something happened the other day that I can’t ever get out of my head. There was this guy that was probably in the war, he had one arm and one leg, he was a black man and he was very hungry. We were...

The United States has spent $601.31 billion on NASA since its inception. The total estimate is $1.32 trillion when adjusted for inflation, an average of $22.03 billion annually over its entire history. The budget for fiscal year 2020 for the National Aeronautic Space Administration is $21 billion. It is an increase of 1.4 percent compared to FY 2019(Amadeo). There is...