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SEC: The abbreviation for Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a federal government agency that regulates the trading of corporate stock to protect investors against unscrupulous practices. Like a number of other federal regulatory agencies, the SEC was established in the 1930s--1934 to be exact. The impetus for its formation was to prevent investors from manipulating the stock market and to prevent other practices that contributed to the 1929 stock market crash. The SEC has all sorts of rules governing the stock market, including information disclosure, insider trading, speculation, and use of credit.
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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 2: A Little More
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- How much price and quantity changes, however, depends on elasticity.
- Demand Changes, Elastic Supply: With elastic supply any change in demand results in relatively large changes in quantity, but relatively small changes in price.
- Demand Changes, Inelastic Supply: With inelastic supply any change in demand results in relatively small changes in quantity, but relatively large changes in price.
- Supply Changes, Elastic Demand: With elastic demand any change in supply results in relatively large changes in quantity, but relatively small changes in price.
- Supply Changes, Inelastic Demand: With inelastic demand any change in supply results in relatively small changes in quantity, but relatively large changes in price.
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GOVERNMENT PURCHASES Expenditures made by the government sector on final goods and services, or gross domestic product. Government purchases are used to buy the goods and services needed to operate the government (such as administrative salaries) and to provide public goods (including national defense, highway construction). These purchases are one of two major categories of government spending, the other is transfer payments. Government purchases are financed by a mix of taxes and borrowing and are categorized by the three levels of government: federal, state, and local governments. These are one of four expenditures on gross domestic product. The other three are consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, and net exports.
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