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MAJORITY RULE: A voting rule in which decisions are made based on the majority of those casting a vote. That is, the candidate or program receiving the majority of the votes is the winner. The majority is defined as one vote more than fifty percent of the total number of votes cast. If 100 votes are cast, the majority is 51 votes. If 100 million votes are cast, the majority is 50 million and one (50,000,001). This is perhaps the most common of several voting rules. Others include super majority, unanimity, and plurality.
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Lesson 19: Money Creation | Unit 3: Modern Banking
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Fractional-Reserve Magic
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Modern banks practice fractional-reserve banking, which is the key to money creation. Note that: - Modern reserves take the form of vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits.
- Both ensure the safety of deposits.
- Banks seek profits by making loans and adding to checkable deposits.
- Checkable deposits add to the money supply.
Money creation:- Banks practice fractional-reserve banking, seek revenue through loans, and keep reserves.
- Banks keep 10% of outstanding deposits in reserves.
- Reserves over those required to are excess reserves.
- If a bank has excess reserves, then it can make loans, increase checkable deposits, and create money.
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LIBERAL A political view that favors--(1) paternalistic government, (2) correction of market failure with government intervention, (3) equal opportunities for all citizens regardless of race, age, gender, ethnic origin, or planet of origin, (4) redistribution of income and wealth, and (5) regulation and control by government over the profit-seeking businesses of the second estate.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area hoping to buy either a wall poster commemorating last Friday (you know why) or a country wreathe. Be on the lookout for defective microphones.
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The portion of aggregate output U.S. citizens pay in taxes (30%) is less than the other six leading industrialized nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." -- Leslie Poles Hartley, Writer
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GATT
General Agreementon Tariffs and Trade
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