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HUMAN CAPITAL: The sum total of a person's productive knowledge, experience, and training. The acquisition of human capital is what makes a person more productive. One of the most notable methods of stocking up on human capital is through formal education--from grade school to advanced college degrees. However, human capital is also effectively obtained through less formal training and highly informal on-the-job experiences.
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DECREASING MARGINAL RETURNS In the short-run production of a firm, an increase in the variable input results in a decrease in the marginal product of the variable input. Decreasing marginal returns typically surface after the first few quantities of a variable input are added to a fixed input. This is one of two types of marginal returns. The other is increasing marginal returns. A related phenomenon is diseconomies of scale associated with long-run production.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing about a thrift store trying to buy either a really, really exciting, action-filled video game or a coffee cup commemorating the moon landing. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them ‚ the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas. " -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Writer
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FOMC
Federal Open Market Committee
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