{"id":210752,"date":"2018-09-14T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/eco-415-week-3-individual-assignment-lets-talk-money-interview-transcript\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:07:39","slug":"eco-415-week-3-individual-assignment-lets-talk-money-interview-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-415-week-3-individual-assignment-lets-talk-money-interview-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO 415 Week 3 Individual Assignment Let&#8217;s Talk Money Interview Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Individual Assignment: Let&#8217;s Talk Money Interview Transcript\t\u00a0\tCreate a 1,050- to 1,400-word fictitious dialogue that takes place during a segment of Let&#8217;s Talk Money, a fictitious TV talk show that interviews prominent individuals in the business community. During the segment, the show&#8217;s host, a government official, and a business savvy CEO discuss the relationship between the government, the economy, and a company selected from the following list:o Pepsi-Cola Company\u2122o Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.\u2122o Lowe&#8217;s\u00aeo Starbuck&#8217;s Coffee\u00ae Companyo Barnes &#038;Noble\u00aeo Amazon.com, Inc. \u00a9o Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P. \u00a9o Dell Inc. \u00a9o The Walt Disney Company\u00a9oMicrosoft\u00aeNote.\t\u00a0\tYou may use a company with which you are familiar as a substitute.\u00b7 Use your creativity with this dialogue and develop the points of view of the characters involved. The following questions must be addressed and serve as the basis for grading this assignment:\t\u00a0\to In what type of situations might the selected company run a high risk of violating antitrust laws? How might the government react to assure fair competition within the company&#8217;s given market?\t\u00a0\to In what ways might the selected company create a benefit externality? In what ways might it create a cost externality? How might the government respond to the externalities created by the selected company?\t\u00a0\to What is the importance of the government as a buyer in a market economy? Explain from both a governmental and a business perspective\t\u00a0\to In what ways might the selected company do business with the government? From the company&#8217;s perspective, what might be the benefits and drawbacks of selling to the government? From the government&#8217;s perspective, what might be the benefits and drawbacks of buying from the company?\t\u00a0\t\u00b7 In what situation would the selected company likely consider a merger with one of the other companies on the list? What risks and benefits would a possible merger present? How might the government respond to the merger? Would the two companies merge? Explain why or why not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual Assignment: Let&#8217;s Talk Money Interview Transcript \u00a0 Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word fictitious dialogue that takes place during a segment of Let&#8217;s Talk Money, a fictitious TV talk show that interviews prominent individuals in the business community. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-415-week-3-individual-assignment-lets-talk-money-interview-transcript\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}