(December 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The economic problem â sometimes called the basic or central economic problem â asserts that an economy's finite resources are insufficient to satisfy all human wants and needs. It assumes that human wants are unlimited, but the means to satisfy human wants are scarce. Three questions arise from this:
August 8, 1993: Six people were killed when their balloon hit a power line near Aspen, Colorado, tearing off the basket and sending it plunging 100 feet to the ground. December 11, 1990: Four people died near downtown Columbus, Ohio, after their hot-air balloon hit a television tower and deflated.
Two U.S. tourists die on Royal Caribbean cruise to Puerto Rico. Two American tourists died as the Anthem of the Seas went from New Jersey to San Juan. Two tourists were found dead aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that left New Jersey for Puerto Rico. The cruise company told the Daily News in a statement that two guests aboard the Anthem of the Seas had died on Tuesday and Wednesday during the first leg of its journey, from Bayonne to San Juan. Puerto Ricoâs El Nuevo Dia identified the men as 62-year-old Joseph Ambrussi of New Jersey and William Forsytte, 55, of Pennsylvania.