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WHEALER-LEA ACT: This was a major amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, passed in 1938, that gave powers to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate unfair and deceptive business practices and to prevent false advertising. The Whealer-Lea Act was a major step in moving the Federal Trade Commission into its current role as more of a consumer protection agency than a monopoly buster.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 4: Measuring Income
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In this unit, you should have learned something about:- The three income measures, national income (NI), personal income (PI) and disposable income (DI).
- Alternative ways of calculating national income--the sum of factor payments (NI = W + I + R + P + PI), adjusting GDP (NI = GDP - CCA - IBT + NFFI), and adjusting NDP (NI = NDP - IBT + NFFI).
- Income earned but not received (IEBNR), including Social Security taxes, corporate profit taxes, and undistributed corporate profits.4. Income received but not earned (IRBNE), including Social Security benefits, welfare payments, and unemployment compensation.
- Deriving personal income from national income (PI = NI - IEBNR + IRBNE).
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BALANCE ON MERCHANDISE TRADE A subset of the balance of payments current account that records the difference between the payments received for exports of goods to other nations and the payments made for the imports of goods from other nations. The goods included are physical or tangible goods, but not intangible services. The balance on merchandise trade is thus appropriately divided into merchandise exported and merchandise imported. Two other subsets of the current account include the balance on services and unilateral transfers. The commonly termed balance of trade is the sum of the balance on merchandise trade and the balance on services.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center seeking to buy either a how-to book on fine dining or a coffee cup commemorating the first day of winter. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots. Your Complete Scope
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Parker Brothers, the folks who produce the Monopoly board game, prints more Monopoly money each year than real currency printed by the U.S. government.
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown ‚ Writer
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