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NET REVENUE: A common term for profit, as the difference between total revenue and total cost. When used in the real world of business wheeling and dealing, this notion of net revenue general refers to accounting profit rather than economic profit. The "net" aspect of net revenue indicates that some (that something being cost) is deducted from total or "gross" revenue. Other common terms used in this same context are net income and net earnings.

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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 4: Regulating Banks Page: 21 of 24

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  • That banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the economy.
  • The main reasons of bank regulations:
    • When balance between profit and safety fails, customers lose trust and banks may have to shut down.
    • Banks control 60% of the M1 money supply.
  • The problems for the economy when banks get carried away seeking profits without having enough deposit-protecting reserves.
  • The main institutions which regulate banking activities and their main functions: Federal Reserve System (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Comptroller of the Currency.
  • The ways in which banks are regulated.

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EFFICIENT INFORMATION SEARCH

A comparison between the cost of acquiring information and the benefit generated by the information such that it is not possible to increase welfare or well being by acquiring any more of any less information. Efficient information search is achieved by equating the marginal cost of search with the benefit of search. This efficiency is comparable to the profit-maximizing decision by a producer and the utility-maximizing decision by a consumer.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale wanting to buy either 500 feet of telephone cable or a package of 4 by 6 index cards, the ones with lines. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers.
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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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