IR & Politics
The prime minister of Canada
Who is Justin Trudeau?
Taxes a country applies to imported goods from another country. (hint: starts with a "t")
What is a tariff?
The infamous moral thought experiment where you are given the choice to hit one person or multiple people, given you pull a lever to hit only the one person.
The bank Taira works at
What is scotiabank?
The term given when a country cuts off economic ties with another country, generally for their "bad actions".
What is a Sanction?
The impact on price of demand increasing but supply decreasing for a product.
What is price inflation (equilibrium increase)?
The "happiness triangle", showing what true happiness looks like, and how it is disconnected from external factors and largely reliant on yourself.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
The two types of debate points you can create.
What are: principle and practical points?
One way to justify engaging in foreign conflict.
(Trivial; up to me)
Ideas include: if the country threatens you, if the country is committing serious crimes against humanity, etc.
The name of the study of big economic trends on the country level, dealing with trade relations. (it ends with "economics" and it starts with "m")
Macroeconomics
Two historical examples of propaganda being used.
(Trivial; up to me)
Ideas may be:
-> vietnam war
-> wwii
-> pro racism propaganda during jim crow era
The spelling for the full legal name of the Russian president
What is Vladimir Putin?
The specific name for the strategic action of the ruling political party within the USA to increase their influence by increasing the number of judges in the supreme court and appointing them as well.
What is Stacking/Packing the courts.
3 things that can cause a recession.
(Up to me)
Ideas include: War/Covid, inflation, political turmoil
The reason why signing yourself to a large agency as an aspiring artist may be a bad decision.
(subjective)
-> predatory companies (they make you sign away a lot of your intellectual property, kinda like kpop groups)
What is the Central Bank?
The part of Ukrainian land first seized (annexed) by Russia in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2014.
What is Crimea?
In a recession, when companies go bankrupt, the central bank has this option to help a company out through large loans if they find that it is important enough to the country's economy.
What is a Bail-out?
The philosophy that nothing in life makes sense, and that's how it will always be. Given that, we should keep pushing forward. Bonus 300 if you know the first/last name of the philosopher who invented it!
What is Absurdism?
Who is albert camus?
The derivative of x3 with respect to dx
3x2