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SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION: A depository institution chartered by the Federal Home Loan Bank that was established to assist home owners with low-cost mortgage loans using savings deposits. However, S&Ls have expanded their activities and now provide most of the services of traditional banks, including checkable deposits.
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- The notion of factor markets.
- Factor markets exchange the productive services of resources or factors of production.
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and resource markets are synonymous. - Like any markets, factors markets combine the forces of demand and supply.
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ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE The general ability to produce more goods or services using fewer resources. A person or country has an absolute advantage in production largely due to superior technology or greater technical efficiency. A related, but contrasting concept is comparative advantage. Both terms are perhaps most important to the study of international trade, but also provide insight into other exchanges.
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A communal society, a prime component of Karl Marx's communist philosophy, was advocated by the Greek philosophy Plato.
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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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L Total Liquid Assets
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