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PAPER ECONOMY: Markets, exchanges, and assorted economic activity that deal with legal or paper claims on physical assets rather than the physical assets. The vast majority of activities for the paper economy take place through financial markets. The paper (or financial) economy is based legal claims on these physical goods and resources. The term paper economy is used because these legal claims historically have been pieces of paper--paper that you can't eat, wear, or live in to satisfy wants and needs. However, as technology progresses, much of the paper is giving way to electronic data storage.
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FOREIGN SECTOR: The basic macroeconomic sector that includes everyone and everything outside the political boundaries of the domestic economy. This includes households, businesses, and governments in other countries. This is one of four macroeconomic sectors. The other three are household sector, business sector, and government sector. In terms of the circular flow model of the economy, the foreign sector is responsible for net export expenditures on gross domestic product. See also | foreign | domestic | net exports | exports | imports | foreign exchange | balance of payments | household sector | business sector | government sector | circular flow | gross domestic product |
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EMPLOYED PERSONS People who are actively engaged in the production of goods and services. This is one of three official categories used to classify individuals by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) based on information obtained from the Current Population Survey. The other two categories are unemployed persons and not in the labor force. The sum of employed persons and unemployed persons constitutes the civilian labor force.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area trying to buy either a pair of blue silicon oven mitts or a coffee cup commemorating the 2000 Olympics. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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A U.S. dime has 118 groves around its edge, one fewer than a U.S. quarter.
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. " -- An Wang, industrialist
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MGF
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