Tournament: Hockaday | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AP | Judge: Adeniji, Tola
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UQ – U.S. economy is positively recovering but its progress has significantly slowed due to shortages. Feuer 10/28:
Feuer, Will (Will is a writer on CNBC.com’s health and science team. He joined CNBC in June 2019 after graduating from the University of Michigan with a BA in Public Policy and Chinese. Before that, he held internships with The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Detroit Metro Times and Southeast Asia Globe in Phnom Penh, Cambodia). “US Economy Grew Just 2 Percent in Third Quarter as COVID Recovery Cools.” New York Post, 28 Oct. 2021, nypost.com/2021/10/28/us-economy-grows-as-covid-recovery-cools-down.
This is a problem because our promising recovery has made the US the top destination of overseas investment.
Hannon, Paul, et al. “U.S. Economy Is Bouncing Back from Covid-19. Now Foreign Investors Are Rushing in.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Company, 21 June 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/turbocharged-u-s-economy-attracts-foreign-investors-11624263520. Paul Hannon is a Wallstreet Journalist reporter.
Link - RTS and Unionization steers employers and investors from riskier projects and investments.
Chen, 17 Jun, et al. “The Economic Consequences of Labor Unionization: Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk.” Journal of Business Ethics, Springer Netherlands, 6 Sept. 2017, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-017-3686-0.
Jun CHen is the Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
IL - Risky investments are key to the economy
Schrager, Allison. “Propeller of Growth.” City Journal, 22 Jan. 2020, https://www.city-journal.org/risk-management?wallit_nosession=1. Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
A downgrade devastates the economy, especially during crises like COVID – many countries prove.
Mutize ’20 (Misheck Mutize; Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town; published 4-30-2020; "Why downgrading countries in a time of crisis is an exceptionally bad idea"; https://theconversation.com/why-downgrading-countries-in-a-time-of-crisis-is-an-exceptionally-bad-idea-136863; accessed 10-30-2020)
Economic collapse increases the risk of war – a decline in trade dramatically raises tensions.
Tønnesson ’15 (Stein Tønnesson; Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway; published 8-20-2015; "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace"; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2233865915596660?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2)
Nuclear war causes extinction – famine, fallout, and Ice Age.
Starr ’15 (Steven Starr; Steven is an Associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and has been published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His writings appear on the websites of PSR, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Scientists for Global Responsibility, and the International Network of Scientists Against Proliferation. From 2007 through 2011, he worked with the governments of Switzerland, Chile, and New Zealand, in support of their efforts at the United Nations to eliminate thousands of high-alert, launch-ready nuclear weapons. Mr. Starr is also an expert on the environmental consequences of nuclear war, and in 2011, he made an address to the U.N. First Committee describing the dangers that nuclear weapons and nuclear war poses to all nations and peoples. He has made presentations to Ministry Officials, Parliamentarians, Universities, citizens and students from around the world, and specializes in making technical scientific information understandable to all audiences.; published 2-28-2015; "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen"; https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html)