FIXED INVESTMENT: Capital investment expenditures for factories, machinery, tools, and buildings. This is one of two main categories of gross private domestic investment included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other category is change in business inventories. This is that category is about generally about 95-97% of gross private domestic investment and that includes the capital goods that best reflects what most people consider capital investment. This category includes factories, machinery, tools, and buildings.

     See also | investment | capital | gross private domestic investment | National Income and Product Accounts | Bureau of Economic Analysis | change in business inventories | fixed structures | equipment |

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The intercept of the aggregate expenditures line indicates autonomous expenditures, aggregate expenditures that do not depend on the level of income or production. This can be thought of as aggregate expenditures that the four macroeconomic sectors (household, business, government, and foreign) undertake regardless of the state of the economy. Autonomous expenditures are affected by the aggregate expenditures determinants, which cause a change in the intercept and a shift of the aggregate expenditures line.

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