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ZERO SLOPE: A horizontal line in which the numerical value of the slope, calculated as the change in the variable on the vertical axis divided by a change in the variable on the horizontal axis, is zero. In other words, the Y-axis variable is fixed, or constant, for any and all values of the X-axis variable.
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Lesson 11: Circular Flow | Unit 2: Financial Markets
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- The main function of financial markets, which is to divert national income from household consumption to business investment.
- The difference between the real or physical side of the economy (the production of goods that satisfy wants and needs) and the paper or financial side (legal claims on or ownership of physical resources, goods, and production).
- How income is diverted from legal-claim buyer to legal-claim seller through the financial markets.
- Why saving can be thought as a nonconsumption use of income, as making a loan, or as supplying income to the financial markets in exchange for a legal claim.
- Two basic reasons to save: (1) in return for an interest payment or (2) to accumulate income that can be spent later.
- Investment, which is business sector expenditures on gross domestic product for capital goods.
- How the business sector borrows income through financial markets and uses this income flow to finance capital investment.
- Why adding saving, investment, and financial markets does not change the total volume of the circular flow.
- That imbalances between saving and investment trigger economic stability, business cycles, unemployment, and inflation.
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE The study of the flow of monetary payments and the exchange of currencies among nations undertaken as a necessary complement to the international trading of goods and services. The exchange of currencies takes place through the foreign exchange market, which determines the foreign exchange rate, or exchange rate or one currency for another. The balance of payments documents the flow of currency payments into and out of a given country. A related area of study is international trade, both of which are part of the broader study of international economics.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store looking to buy either a box of multi-colored, plastic paper clips or several orange mixing bowls. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door.
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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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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -- Lewis Carroll, writer
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SAFEX
South African Futures Exchange
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