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PREDATORY PRICING: The process in which a firm with market control reduces prices below average total cost with the goal of forcing competitors into bankruptcy. This practice is most commonly undertaken by oligopoly firms seeking to expand their market shares and gain greater market control. Predatory price has been outlawed by antitrust laws, but it can be difficult to prove, and is thus likely exists more than most people think.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 4: Regulating Banks
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Several institutions which regulate banks. The main players: - Federal Reserve System (Fed): They have primary responsibility of the nation's money supply by controlling banking reserves.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): Their mission is to insure bank deposits. If a bank can't satisfy customer withdrawals the FDIC pays off the customers.
- Comptroller of the Currency: They charter national banks, they decide which ones qualify for a national charter.
Other regulatory agencies: - State banking regulatory agencies.
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS The official unemployment rate, which measures the proportion of the civilian labor force 16 years or older that is not engaged in productive activities but is actively seeking employment, might be either overstated or understated due to discouraged workers, part-time workers, and unreported legal or illegal employment. Taken together, these measurement problems suggest that the official unemployment rate is likely understated during business-cycle contraction and overstated during business-cycle expansions.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a large, stuffed giraffe or a birthday greeting card for your aunt. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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The first paper currency used in North America was pasteboard playing cards "temporarily" authorized as money by the colonial governor of French Canada, awaiting "real money" from France.
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"We succeed in enterprises (that) demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those (that) can also make use of our defects." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Statesman
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ASEAN
Association of South East Asian Nations
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