How to Author a Proposal & Proposal Guidelines

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Authoring Options 

In order to author the best, most effective proposals, we encourage you to structure your investigations in a way that is easily readable. That means building your arguments in a logical fashion, showing the step-by-step process of how you reached your estimate for the amount stolen in that specific economic area.

We have carefully designed the problem hierarchy, and it covers many potential problem areas of the economy already. Nevertheless, there are likely gaps in our coverage.

# {~C~} ZeroTheft.net     {~C~}

# /industries/finance/all_summary/

# {~C~} The following is a template to use when authoring a new proposal for the problem for this path {~C~}

# {~C~} Provided are: {~C~}

# {~C~} – an overview of the problem {~C~}

# {~C~} – some ideas you can use to build your case {~C~}

# {~C~} – extensive researched data you can use to back up your reasoning {~C~}

# {~C~} – useful quotes on the subject you can use for your case or as a starting point for further research {~C~}

# The following summary is not an exact amount, but an opinion on an approximation

# Citizens are often powerless.

# The government rarely uses criminal prosecution tools (subpoenas, legal discovery, etc.) when the privileged class steals.

# When these tools aren’t applied, citizens have no recourse except to approximate what is being stolen.

summary: {~C~}Enter Dollar amount ripped off in rigged economy on this issue yr{~C~}

summary_year: {~C~}2019{~C~}

summary_country: USA

hierarchy: /industries/finance/all_summary/

title: Does the Finance industry (including WallStreet) steal by rigging the economy?

The items in italic red would be replaced by what is appropriate to the specific proposal template.

size_of_problem

The size_of_problem refers to the dollar amounts involved in the case (e.g. finance sector revenue, amount lost during 2008 mortgage crisis, etc.). You will probably utilize these figures in your calculations for the above section.  

The template and other problem proposals will have the requisite financial data, but if you think you have more accurate figures, please include your own information. 

Each subsection should include:

• source – the source of the data (human-readable)
• url – the URL where the data can be found
• data – an array of data entries.  This will contain (as appropriate)
  • year – the year this data applies to
  • month – the month this data applies to
  • amount – the amount (typically a currency)
  • other_breakdown_keys – keys appropriate to this data
  • description – a description of what these values mean in terms of the industry or proposal