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SERVICES: Activities that provide direct satisfaction of wants and needs without the production of tangible products or goods. Examples include information, entertainment, and education. This term service should be contrasted with the term good, which involves the satisfaction of wants and needs with tangible items. You're likely to see the plural combination of these two into a single phrase, "goods and services," to indicate the wide assortment of economic production from the economy's scarce resources.
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FISCAL POLICY Control over government spending and taxes by a central government which is used to stabilize business cycles, reduce unemployment and inflation, and promote economic growth. In the United States fiscal policy is primarily undertaken at the federal level through acts of Congress and actions by the President. However, state and local governments also undertake fiscal policy to stabilize their local macroeconomies. The government sector has three alternative tools in the use of fiscal policy--government purchases, taxes, and transfer payments. An alternative to fiscal policy is monetary policy.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages looking to buy either a video game player or an AC adapter that won't fry your computer. Be on the lookout for vindictive digital clocks with revenge on their minds. Your Complete Scope
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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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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