One negative effect of interest groups is that politicians today cater to the wants and needs of interest groups instead of to the needs of the public. This effect is called

Karl marx spent much of his life attempting to describe and understand how capitalism works. in one particularly vivid passage, he described in this way the turbulence he saw as inherent in capitalism: “all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.” what sort of relationships did he think his readers had with other people? a. relationships based on social bonds and solidarity b. cultural relationships c. economic relationships d. relationships of community and religion

3. explain one example of how the u.s. has struggled to balance energy independence and environmentalprotection

6–7. white-collar crime. matthew simpson and others created and operated a series of corporate entities to defraud telecommunications companies, creditors, credit reporting agencies, and others. through these entities, simpson and the others used routing codes and spoofing services to make long-distance calls appear to be local. they stole other firms’ network capacity and diverted payments to themselves. they leased goods and services without paying for them. to hide their association with their corporate entities and with each other, they used false identities, addresses, and credit histories, and issued false bills, invoices, financial statements, and credit references,. did these acts constitute mail and wire fraud? discuss. [united states v. simpson, 741 f.3d 539 (5th cir. 2014)] (see types of crimes.)