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PERFECT COMPETITION, PROFIT ANALYSIS: A perfectly competitive firm produces the profit-maximizing quantity of output that generates the highest level of profit. This profit approach is one of three methods that used to determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output. The other two methods involve a comparison of total revenue and total cost or a comparison of marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking
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Goldsmith Deposits
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The story continues when Bill the Knight needs to store some gold for a short time. The story: - Bill has some gold he would like to store in Fred's safe.
- Fred agrees and charges Bill for this storage service.
- When Bill returns from his journey he retrieves his gold, less a modest service charge.
- Bill informs other knights about this service and they also begin taking advantage of Fred's storage service.
- Fred realizes that storing gold is an easy way to earn a living.
Fred has stumbled upon the depository function of modern banks.
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CAUSE AND EFFECT The notion that every event in the universe is the direct result of a preceding event, that one event A causes another event B. The purpose of the scientific method is to identify these cause-and-effect relations. This pursuit is based on a simple point of view: everything happens for a reason. For every action there is a consequence. And for every consequence there is a cause.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages trying to buy either a coffee table shaped like the state of Florida or storage boxes for your summer clothes. Be on the lookout for deranged pelicans.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." -- John F. Kennedy, 35th U. S. president
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