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GROWTH: The process of increasing the economy's ability to produce goods. Growth is also one of the three macroeconomic goals of an economy (full employment and stability are the other two). Growth is usually measured by increases in gross domestic product or per capita gross domestic product. The main sources of growth are increases in the quantity and quality of the resources. And the primary way of achieving these increases goes by the term investment.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 2: Resources
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Factors of production, productive factors, or resources are the 'stuff' used to create wants-and-needs-satisfying goods. Economists have four official groups, or categories, for our resources, for our factors of production: - Labor: human effort, both physical and mental.
- Capital: machines, equipment, tools, and buildings.
- Land: raw materials or natural resources.
- Entrepreneurship: risk-taking organizers of production.
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COINCIDENT ECONOMIC INDICATORS Four economic statistics that tend to move up or down along WITH business-cycle expansions and contractions. Most importantly, these measures indicate peak and trough turning points when they actually occur. Coincident economic indicators are one of three groups of economic measures used to track business-cycle activity. The other two are leading economic indicators and lagging economic indicators.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time driving to a factory outlet trying to buy either a birthday gift for your uncle or a pair of red and purple designer socks. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties. Your Complete Scope
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A scripophilist is one who collects rare stock and bond certificates, usually from extinct companies.
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown ‚ Writer
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CLI Cost of Living Index
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