When and owing to what dramatic event did a need for the National Income and Product Ac-counts emerged in the U.S.A.?
What economist, who received the Nobel Prize subsequently, headed the development of the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts?
What other economist, who also received the Nobel Prize, developed the "input - output" matrix, which was effectively used for mobilization of the American economy during the World War II?
For what reasons in 1991 the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis changed the calculation of "Gross National Product " (GNP) to "Gross Domestic Product " (GDP)?
What are the main methodological changes in the National Income and Product Accounts, which have been introduced since 1996?
What is a necessity in transition from "indexes with constant weights" to annually weighed "chain" (multiplied) indexes?
How is an "ideal" Fisher's index calculated which is used for construction of dynamic time series of GDP with the "chain weights"?
What are "hedonistic indexes" and how widely are they applied for estimation of the U.S. real GDP?
What is the basic difference in the rates of growth of a "real" GDP calculated in "chain" dollars and a GDP calculated in current prices?
What is a basic difference between the new "bell-shaped amortization" and the old "accelerated amor-tization"?
How a volume of U.S. Reproducible Tangible Wealth has changed as a result of transition from price indexes with constant weights to chain indexes with 1996 base?
What is a purpose of "rewriting" the U.S. economic history of the 20th Century?
How do you like the idea of substraction the unproductive material flows (for example, defense expenditures) from the GDP instead of their traditional summation with the productive material-financial flows?
What is a range of relative and absolute estimations of "shadow economy" in the United States?
What place do various conflicts occupy in the newest history of international relations?
Why it is irrational to entrust the conflict management to such bodies as the RF Ministry for For-eign Affairs, or the U.S. State Department?
Due to what reasons - "anticonflict mechanisms" or "self-restriction in the name of self-preservation" - the USSR and the USA managed to avoid military disaster during the Cold War?
What was Boris Eltsin's the most serious omission in forming the Russian-American relations in the 1990's?
What role had the Russian-American Commission of Gore - Chernomyrdin played during this pe-riod?
Whether one should regard "a quick march to Slatina" and a capture by the Russian peace-making contingent of Prishtina airbase as a relapse of the Cold War or as "an effective strategic move" by Rus-sia?
Whether the "U-turn of E.Primakov's airplane", who had rejected his visit to the United States, was an objective reaction to the development of Russian-American relations, or it was dictated by in-ternal political circumstances?
Whether it is possible to regard these two actions as proofs that Russia is "not quite a civilized partner of the United States?
When was the Russian-American Working Group on Afghanistan formed and when this group was transformed into the Working Group on Counterterrorism?
Whether any antagonistic contradictions exist between Russia and the United States now?
What is the main risk factor of pure political and diplomatic conflicts of Russia with the U.S.A.?
Whether it is necessary to understand the affiliation of Russia with the Antiterrorist Coalition as "the turn of Russia to the West"?
Whether the world community managed to create an effective mode of the Non-Dissimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?
Whether the development in a number of the countries of the WMD and its carriers is not "the state terrorism with global consequences"?
What is a serious drawback of already working mechanisms and procedures of the crises and con-flicts management?
Whether Russia should struggle for preservation of the U.N. status as main multilateral anticonflict mechanism?
Whether you know that Enron corporation which at the moment of its crash was the seventh com-pany in the U.S. on the profits received, was formed only in 1985?
Whether you know that in 1996-2000 the Fortune magazine awarded Enron a status of "the most innovative company in America"?
Whether you know that in 1990's Enron occupied the 14th place among 50 largest financial donors of the Republican party?
Whether you know that Enron was actively engaged in lobbying and that only in 2001 the corporation brought "donations" to 71 senators and 188 congressmen?
Whether you know that Enron's stock price at the end of 2000 reached 84.87 dollars per share?
Whether you know that after sudden publishing the data about the third quarter losses on October, 16, 2001, the price of Enron shares has fallen below 10 dollars?
Whether you know that A.Andersen auditor firm not only had been covering financial frauds of Enron management, but also had destroyed a huge volume of financial documentation concerning these operations?
Whether you know that despite the losses, the Enron management had acquired tens millions dol-lars, and the chairman of corporation received more than $140 million in bonuses only in 2000?
Whether you know that the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs has come to conclusion that the Securities and Exchange Commission is not capable to eradicate corporate swindle in the U.S.A.?
Whether you know that after Enron's wreck the statements about large financial abuses followed from such well-known companies, as WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco, Adelphia, Right Aid?
Whether you know that resting on the results of public polls carried out in 2002, 72 % of all re-spondents believed that many exchange brokers were operating in their personal interests; 73 % con-sidered that auditors were hiding the negative financial information; and 77 % declared that quite often the chief executives were acting in mercenary interests?
Whether you know that among 15 analysts who covered the Enron activity at the date when finan-cial problems of corporation have been promulgated, 12 experts recommended to public to buy Enron shares, and three weeks after 10 experts still continued to call public to buy this corporation shares?
Whether you know that private agencies awarded to Enron a "reliable credit rating" till the very latest moment?
Whether you know that the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Report contains a conclu-sion that crash of the company was promoted by her own Board of Directors which had been carrying out fraud operations of billions (!) of dollars?
Whether you know that for two years after the announcement of Enron bankruptcy the payments to the lawyers participating in bankruptcy trial, has exceeded 400 million dollars, and that only one of these lawyers "has earned" 60 million dollars?
Whether you know that twenty criminal cases were opened against Enron management, that five accused have already recognized themselves guilty, but that judicial accusations have been not pre-sented to both the chairman and the president of corporation?
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