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SEVERANCE TAX: A tax on the value of raw materials, such as minerals and fossil fuels, when they are extracted from the environment. This is one of those hidden, unpublicized taxes on producers that is ultimately passed along consumers.

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PEAK

The transition of a business-cycle expansion to a business-cycle contraction. The end of an expansion carries this descriptive term of peak, or the highest level of economic reached in recent times. A peak is one of two turning points. The other, the transition from contraction to expansion, is a trough. Turning points are important because they represent the transition from bad to good or good to bad.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale seeking to buy either a birthday gift for your mother or a weathervane with a horse on top. Be on the lookout for high interest rates.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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