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TIE-IN SALE: A type of sale in which consumers can buy one good only if they purchase another good as well. For example, if your grocery store sells you a bag of tea with the condition that you buy a pound of sugar, that would be a tie-in sale. Because they allow a monopoly to increase its profit over what it could make by selling the two goods separately at constant prices, tie-in sales can be used to price discriminate. However, it is important to realize that there are other reasons for tie-in sales other than price discrimination, such as to increase efficiency. For example, when we buy a car, it comes as a package of several goods (tires, engine, etc), which would be very difficult (and inefficient) for consumers to assemble if they were bought separately.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking
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Banks divide assets between loan and reserves using fractional-reserve banking:- The profit-pursuing, financial intermediary function of banks dictates that deposits be used for loans.
- The safekeeping, money supply security function dictates that banks keep reserves.
A) 100% reserve banking would imply that: - They could not be financial intermediaries, but only storage buildings. The financial intermediary function performed by banks would have to be performed by something else.
B) 0% reserve banking would imply: - Problems with customers who want their wealth, but can't get it because the bank loaned it out.
- The bank can easily be put out of business when customers spread the word that the bank is out of funds.
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SECOND RULE OF SUBJECTIVITY The second of seven basic rules of the economy, stating that market prices are determined by subjective values and the preferences of buyers and resource owners. Contrary to popular opinion, prices and costs are not immutably facts of nature, but are ultimately based on what people are willing to pay or accept.
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Woodrow Wilson's portrait adorned the $100,000 bill that was removed from circulation in 1929. Woodrow Wilson was removed from circulation in 1924.
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