Within every working industry from construction, medicine, janitorial, education to business, several workplace hazards exist and continue to injure employees every year. While a majority of these incidence result in minor injuries, many can be more serious and lead to amputations, severe blood loss and death. To minimize the degree to which these situations may occur, it is essential the workplace safety signs be displayed.

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By the end of the 19th century, the capitalist economies were out of breath from the cyclically recurring crises. This was observed by Karl Marx, who was vowing that the capitalist system would collapse after the next crisis caused by the overproduction of goods. And everything told us that the prognosis of Marx was about to come true, because overproduction had become a chronic problem of the capitalist economies – more goods were produced than there were customers. Drastic measures were needed, and the solution was found – the pyramid of consumption was turned. If previously the man first produced and then consumed, now he first consumed and then produced. By the way it was achieved, four forms of socialism can be distinguished.
State Socialism, or the European model of socialism. In this model the distribution of public goods is a state affair. The reasoning is simple: the state removes the excessive efficiency of the companies through taxes and distributes it among the citizens.
Taxes have always existed, but in the 20th century they were collected, not only in favor of the ruling class (the bureaucracy) and public needs, but also to maintain the solvency of all its citizens, which naturally led to an increase in the tax burden. Actually, the money that the state gives to a citizen through various forms of social services and guarantees, are returned to the economy, when he buys goods and services for which he previously would not have had money, respectively, enterprises can easily expand the production of these goods.
But this concern about the proliferation of citizens turned to parasitic attitude. A striking example of this is Germany, where people prefer to grow old living on unemployment benefits, rather than look for a job, the payment of which may be below the public benefit. Thus, the businessman is between the hammer and anvil – high business taxes strike on the one hand and on the other wage workers do not allow to reduce costs by requiring payment not lower than the state standards. And the introduction of minimum wages became generally a lethal drug from poverty.
Of course businessmen have been shifting production to countries where there are no such problems for business. It reached catastrophic dimensions when China chose a path of capitalist development. China, with its relatively educated and hardworking people and very cheap working hands, has become the funnel, which has sucked in the entire world economy.

The second, which is very close to the first, is the Nordic model of socialism. We may call it public socialism, because the primary role in the redistribution of public domain in these countries does not belong to the state, but to local self-governed institutions – municipalities. Moreover, although the level of the social expenditure is even higher than in the rest of Europe, the degree of the governmentalization of the economy is significantly lower. Here such an unprofitable large-scale nationalization of industries didn’t take place, as in other European countries, where this was a way of trying to avoid social disruptions caused by massive dismissals from bankrupt enterprises. And though this model worked even better than the pan-European one, the outcome was the same – bankruptcy.
A special case is Japan. This model can be called “corporate socialism”. In Japan, the brunt of caring for workers is not on the state, but on the corporations in which they work. Corporations, for example, provide their employees with housing. The outcomes of such an economic system are not very good either- corporations have become totally unwieldy. Japan is already in the second decade of stagnation, despite all the efforts of the Government of Japan to revive the economy, be it the zero discount rate, or the maintenance of the low-rate of the yen. Japan is not competitive with the new Asian tigers of economy, which have no such an onerous social system for business.
And finally, the fourth model of socialism – the United States. By way of redistribution of wealth, we can define it as credit socialism. The main feature of this model is, of course, is the developed mortgage system, which is supported by the State. In this model, housing plays a role of locomotive of the economy as a whole, as the increased production in this industry gives a multiplied effect – the construction provides with contracting other industries.
This model of socialism owes its emergence to the Great Depression. Its first institution was the Federal institute for bank housing loans, which was established in 1932, and whose activities are exempt from federal and local income taxes. The bank is something middle between a credit union and the central bank for 12 private regional mortgage banks (by the way, at this moment 8 of these 12 banks are in fact on the verge of bankruptcy). But, of course, the most famous American mortgage institute is the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, established in 1938 by Franklin Roosevelt. In 1968, from Fannie Mae was allocated from the Government National Mortgage Association Ginnie Mae, which deals with social housing, and the Fannie Mae was privatized, but it is still an organization that is sponsored by the U.S. government. In 1970, the U.S. government created the federal mortgage corporation Freddie Mac, which, in essence, is the same as Fannie Mae, but according to the original idea of the States it had to create competition and thereby lower the costs of the mortgage loan. In 1999, Bill Clinton squeezes through the facilitation of the provision of mortgage loan, and the final outcome of it is known to all of us.
The system worked as follows, a mortgage association buys mortgages from banks with the money received by the associations from issuing their own securities, which were bought by both national and foreign investors, including the government. The popularity of these securities was due to the fact that in any case the U.S. government itself would, as it happens, take the responsibility for the payment of these securities. It is a kind of worldwide financial vacuum cleaner for pumping money from the global economy and loading it into the United States. While for the sake of fairness it should be noted that, for example, the easy money of Arab sheikhs has simply nowhere else to go. That is the money earned by them in the export of oil in the United States, are brought back to America.
But the United States is not the only country that went on that path. From the U.S. experience of the “market” stimulation have benefited economies from so many countries around the world. A very impressive example, when the student has surpassed the teacher is Spain, where the mortgage is provided for a term of up to 50 years. By stimulating housing Spain has demonstrated over the past decade a staggering growth, but with the start of the global depression this bubble burst, too.
Thus, at the moment we have, a crisis of all the old capitalist economies, this crisis is not of a conjecture type, as it is often stated by government officials in public statements, claiming that the crisis will stop by itself within one or two years, for which it is only sufficient to boost up consumer demand and provide additional liquidity to banks, but it has touched the very system, affecting the way of formation of consumer demand in developed countries. But the assertion that the main victim of the crisis is the U.S. is not true – the numbers say otherwise.
Many may reasonably argue that not all comes down to cash, that in the modern economy the human capital is crucial. But according to this indicator the world leader is Taiwan. According to the latest testing of students in the framework of the program PISA, which was attended by 57 countries, including all 30 OECD countries, i.e. all countries have the official status of developed countries, Taiwan ranked first in the world by the level of mathematical knowledge, on the second position is Finland, on the third comes Hong Kong, Korea on the fourth, and on the fifth the Netherlands. And, for example, the United States was the 35th, and Russia the 34th. In the rating of the level of scientific knowledge students from Taiwan ranked fourth, the first was Finland, the second Hong Kong, Canada the third and the fifth Estonia. United States in this ranking is in the 29 position, and Russia, respectively in 35. Thus, the level of knowledge, both in the U.S. and Russia, is lower than the average among the countries that participated in the study. By the way, Kyrgyzstan in both ratings took the last 57th position. Unfortunately, nothing can be said about the level of knowledge of Kazakh students, because they were not tested, but considering the above mentioned figures, I am afraid that they would not be very good for Kazakhstan.
Knowledge is, of course, good, but without investment, it will not bear fruit. And then one should pay attention to what occupies the minds of the world powers. At a time when the United States and European countries spend the already holey budgets of their countries to support the banks and broken motor car companies, the Arab and Chinese sovereign funds have started buying up the world and especially the European economy. By the leaders of Western countries, such activity of the eastern investors is welcomed investors, because thanks to it is temporarily stopped the fall in stock indices, and the crisis seems to have ceased to grow rapidly. But the crisis did not go anywhere, as consumer debts to the banks, and bank debts towards each other continue to grow as a snowball.
By giving money to the banks, the governments, first of all, do not allow the financial system to become healthier, and secondly, they strengthen their own debt, and, thirdly, exacerbate the situation with the debts of financial sector. State leaders have forgotten the simple truth, that you cannot save the private sector at the cost of the bankruptcy of the state. And if Europe has already made its choice, the Europeans will be working in enterprises owned by Asians, the United States still has a chance to survive as a great power, but all measures taken up to this time by the U.S. government, force to have doubts as to this question. But I am confident that America has a plan for economic revival, only it is too radical to start bringing it into life now, the crisis has not yet gone so deep as to hold open the bankruptcy of the old economy, and to begin building a new one.

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Compared with other forms of access to foreign markets and their development, indirect exports require scarce resources. Therefore, small and medium enterprises will be happy to attract foreign trade intermediaries at the initial stage of export activity, as they do not have the necessary human and financial resources in their possession to promote their products in foreign markets by other means.
Foreign trade companies and export firms realize the production acquired from domestic enterprises at their own risk. In this case the production company is subject to only small dangers and risks involved in penetrating into foreign markets. One such risk is a short-term drop in the exchange rate, but even this does not have a negative impact on exporting enterprises – more on the export firm.
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Foreign trade companies and export firms tend to supply the goods to candy regions and countries where they have foreign trade partners. Indirect exports do not require a lot of organizational effort, staff workers. Even if the company operates an export department, it employs only a small number of employees, as the main work is carried out by foreign trade partners who have obtained an order.
Indirect export can stop relatively quickly if it turns out that it was goalless.
Indirect exports are characterized by some drawbacks. During its use not all the goods (services) can be sold on the international market. If, for example, it is technically complex goods and services, then indirect export is generally excluded.
Although in case of indirect export the exit to foreign markets demands small financial and human resources, but it is not always effective, because in the long run, leads to diminishing returns. Trading partners in most cases, try to get maximum profit from their service as mediators, thus a need arises to transfer goods or services to a reseller with a small profit for the enterprise. Besides, the latter cannot acquire its own experience in foreign markets, has no information on the wishes of clients, the behavior of competitors, general economic conditions in individual countries.
The main disadvantage of indirect exports is that not all brokers are using the optimum market potential and opportunities for marketing, allowing mistakes and miscalculations in their actions that affect the income of producers of export goods. For example, for certain foreign markets are selected “not optimal” goods from those that may be offered to exporters, the price can be set without taking into account the specifics of the market. The company, exporting indirectly, is deprived of direct communication with the end users. This hinders the transition to other forms of work in the markets.
In case of direct (immediate) export foreign trade activities are carried out without resellers. There are two variants of direct exports: direct export, without a mediator, direct export with a facilitator.
Direct export without a mediator is used if the export is directed at the end-user (enterprises, institutions and private clients), or the goods are received in the wholesale and retail trade in a foreign country. In this case, the domestic company sends its employees abroad for sales of goods and services to final consumers and trade agencies.
If sales representatives, agents or major importers abroad are involved in the process of export, there is a direct export through an intermediary. These brokers, unlike the staff of domestic exporting enterprises sent abroad, are legally independent, that is, they do not act as employees of the exporting company and are not affiliated with any directives, on the contrary, they are engaged in self-marketing.
As with all other options for entry into a foreign market, direct export also has its advantages and disadvantages. Thus, direct export is often carried out under an order, the initiator of which is not the manufacturing enterprise, but a foreign mediator. In most cases, foreign orders/requests are unpredictable, so the company, through exports, responds to them more or less randomly. Thus, while not the initiator of foreign trade activity, a specific business enterprise is becoming an exporter.
Through direct export target management and control of the sales become possible which is unrealistic in case of indirect export. The exporting company establishes a direct contact with a foreign trading partner, and not only operates through its own foreign trade companies abroad, but also has the best opportunities for direct participation in foreign transactions. The advantages of direct exports are especially apparent in the export and supply of complex products and services, the sales of which would not have been possible through foreign trade companies and export firms. This applies, above all, to those goods and services that have only a small degree of standardization and a high-line scheme. Direct export is applicable to a wider range of goods and services.
By directs export a larger number of financial and human resources is covered than in the case of indirect exports. However, compared to more complex forms of entry into the market, such as the creation of a personal commodity distribution network abroad, or affiliated organizations with a complete production cycle, the cost of direct exports is still not so significant. Certain financial resources are required for the contacts with clients or business partners, and in the case of direct export without intermediaries, personal human resources are required in the field.
While direct export is applicable to a wider range of goods and services, for certain goods and services direct export is considered inappropriate in the same way as indirect. This applies to goods that are due to a short work life and cannot or are unlikely to be exported; goods, the export of which may be associated with high transport costs, goods which require complex after-sale services, which cannot be granted by resellers. Direct export is fraught with difficulties for the enterprises of the economic kind, such as those associated with the deterioration of exchange rates. If the rate of domestic currency or currencies of third countries increases on the markets where the company carries out the export, it could cause the company to become relatively uncompetitive in overseas markets.

Data on the Belarusian industrial enterprises, which have direct or indirect export and direct import and barter deals, according to the results of annual surveys conducted by the Research Institute for Economic Ministry of Belarus, are as follows.
The data show that the majority of Belarusian industrial enterprises resorted to direct exports. Moreover, in 2003-2004 direct exports were preferred almost by the three-quarters of surveyed companies. To indirect exports resorted the third of those surveyed enterprises, so in 2002 for its organization 24% of companies have resorted to the services of domestic trade intermediaries, and only 12% have collaborated with foreign traders. In general, the dynamics of the development of direct exports suggest that more and more domestic enterprises will independently realize direct export expansion in overseas markets.
With regard to direct import, which has similar advantages with direct export, then it uses an increasing number of industrial enterprises. This is because the purchase of raw materials, components and products abroad without intermediaries are cheaper. Speaking about the barter as a form of coherent export-import operations, it should be noted that thanks to strong government action, its value is strictly decreasing.

The fall in equity prices will make some companies very vulnerable to absorption by stronger competitors. Companies “predators” have free capital and want to buy cheap shares. Therefore scared of the exchange crisis in 1987, fearing that their shares will be bought by competitors, many U.S. companies, whose share price has fallen, began a massive stock market repurchase of their own shares to preserve their independence. Among them were found even such giants as General Motors, Ford, Coca-Cola, IBM, etc. For many companies, a sharp devaluation of their shares meant bankruptcy.

Historically, two methods of regulation of the securities market were formed, by the State and by the dealers themselves. Prior to the crisis of 1929-33 the state practically did not interfere with the activities of stock exchanges. The crisis and the depression which followed it precipitated the formulation of government regulation of the stock market activities. So far, the law on securities in 1933 and a law on stock exchanges in 1934, remain the basic a document on which rests the state regulation of operations with securities.

The key idea, which was the basis of the state interference in the activities of stock exchanges, has been to maximize non-interference in the process of buying and selling stocks and bonds. A specific embodiment of this idea is found in the principle of “providing information”, on which post-crisis legislative acts are based. Their authors proceeded from the idea that, if the corporation will provide shareholders with detailed and reliable information about the activities of the company, it will automatically lead to the disappearance of the source of all evils on securities market, since the true value of stocks and bonds can be easily identified and their manipulation becomes impossible.

But from the perspective of the society as a whole, stock crisis is only a return to a level that reflects the real situation in the economy. An exchange collapse normally gives rise to the coordination of all economic policy. As a result of a crisis is temporarily restored the relative compliance of processes, occurring in the real economy and in capital formation. However strange it may seem, but in this respect, exchange crises, destroying the “excess” of financial capital, perform a constructive function. Exchange crises have accelerated the development of joint-stock form of property; increasing the concentration of financial capital in the hands of a growing part of the securities, exacerbating the competition between the holders of the shares “for survival,” lead to the bankruptcy of enterprises and banks.

Nevertheless, one can not help seeing that despite all their undeniable negative sides the crises are a prerequisite for the subsequent recovery of the economy. Stock crises, for example, lead to the replacement of backward corporations by advanced, more competitive, beat down the confusing demand for securities, remove from the securities market dealers who are prone to excessive risk, force to seek and introduce new forms and methods of operation of the exchange. (In particular, the stock market crisis of 1987, divided the western economists into supporters of two opposing points of view: some had the notion that stock markets are in need of strengthening the public management, the others remained confident that the market stabilization of the share capital may occur “naturally”, i.e. based on the natural mechanism of action within the exchange).

For small shareholders stock market crises, of course, represent a formidable threat. But rejection of the stock market on the grounds that it is inseparable from speculation and crisis, would deny the economic mechanism a flexible and effective system of capital formation, making the investment process extremely difficult. The availability of the securities market contributes to the capitalization of the income of the members of society, greatly increasing the investment resources of the economy. At the same time, which is very important, there is a real decentralization of the investment process, which gives it the flexibility and dynamism necessary for restructuring of investments.

Finally, the stock market is able to divert a significant portion of cash income of the population, thus reducing the demand for goods and services. This circumstance, which has a very mixed impact on the course of reproduction in developed capitalist countries, may have an important positive value in conditions of a scarce economy.

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