GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT: Expenditures on capital goods to be used for productive activities in the domestic economy that are undertaken by the business sector during a given time period. This is the official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis measuring capital investment expenditures. Gross private domestic investment tends to be the least stable of the four expenditures, averaging between 12-18% of gross domestic product.

     See also | investment | investment expenditures | business sector | National Income and Product Accounts | Bureau of Economic Analysis | gross domestic product | gross domestic product, expenditures | aggregate expenditures | business cycle | investment business cycle | personal consumption expenditures | government consumption expenditures and gross investment | net exports of goods and services |

GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT, AmosWEB GLOSS*arama, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2019. [Accessed: October 19, 2019].

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The money function in which money is widely accept in exchange for goods and services. For an asset to function as a medium of exchange it needs value in exchange, but not necessarily value in use. This is one of four basic functions of money. The other three are unit of account, store of value, and standard of deferred payment.

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