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HEDGING: Buying or selling futures contracts to protect against price changes. This is a common form of "insurance" used by those who produce various commodities, such as wheat, cattle, coffee, and natural gas, as well as those who buy these commodities as inputs.

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MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION, CHARACTERISTICS

The four key characteristics of monopolistic competition are: (1) large number of small firms, (2) similar but not identical products sold by the firms, (3) relative freedom of entry into and exit out of the industry, and (4) extensive knowledge of prices and technology.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time strolling through a department store looking to buy either throw pillows for your living room sofa or a hepa filter for your furnace. Be on the lookout for bottles of barbeque sauce that act TOO innocent.
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The penny is the only coin minted by the U.S. government in which the "face" on the head looks to the right. All others face left.
"When one door closes another door opens; but we do often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. "

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