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DISTRIBUTION: This was formerly, the placement variable of the marketing mix. The activities that put the product, service, or idea at the correct location the customer wants and needs in order to facilitate the purchase. Channels of distribution vary based on the businessŐ strategy, target market, and resources.
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OPEN MARKET: A market, not unlike that stock market, that trades the U.S. Treasury securities that comprises the federal debt. U.S. Treasury securities are low risk and extremely secure financial instruments that are held by all sorts of investors, especially commercial banks. The Federal Reserve System is also a major holder of U.S. Treasury securities and participant in the open market. In fact, the Federal Reserve System used buying and selling of U.S. Treasury securities through the open market as a means of controlling the money, through what is appropriately termed open market operations. See also | open market operations | Federal Reserve System | Federal Open Market Committee | U.S. Treasury security | money | money supply | bank reserves | excess reserves | monetary policy | tight money | easy money | discount rate | reserve requirements | government securities | banking | money creation | federal funds rate |
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COST An alternative term for economic or opportunity cost, which is the highest valued alternative foregone in the pursuit of an activity. Opportunity cost is one of the most fundamental concepts used in the study of economics, hence when the term cost is used in the study of economics without modification, it usually means economic or opportunity cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market trying to buy either a how-to book on surfing the Internet or a computer that can play music and burn CDs. Be on the lookout for letters from the Internal Revenue Service.
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It's estimated that the U.S. economy has about $20 million of counterfeit currency in circulation, less than 0.001 perecent of the total legal currency.
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -- Lewis Carroll, writer
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NEDO
National Economic Development Office
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