There are 45 entries in the GLOSS*arama starting with the letter O.

Entries 1 through 35:

• OAS
• occupational mobility
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Office of Management and Budget
• oikonomos
• Okun's law
• oligopolistic behavior
• oligopoly
• oligopoly and monopolistic competition
• oligopoly and monopoly
• oligopoly characteristics
• oligopoly, concentration
• oligopoly, realism
• oligopsony
• OMB
• OMO
• OPEC
• open economy
• open market
• open market operations
• open shop
• operating statement
• opportunity cost
• opportunity cost, production possibilities
• option
• ordinal
• ordinal utility
• Organization of American States
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• organized labor
• origin
• OSHA
• other prices
• other things equal
• outlaw strike

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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, after deducting capital depreciation. This is the official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis measuring net capital investment expenditures. More specifically net private domestic investment is found by subtracting the capital consumption adjustment from gross private domestic investment. Its primary function is to measure the net increase in the capital stock resulting from investment.

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Our pedestrian's jaunt through the economy is not, unfortunately, an unrestrained shopping spree for confectioneries, spark plug tools, and Houston, Texas. We have other important errands to run. At the moment we need to hike over to Shady Valley's exclusive provider of cable television services, the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television Company, Inc., to inquire about a mysterious fee that appeared last month's bill.

The good news is that the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters (the 4M people) Cable office is a mere 2 miles (3 kilometers for the metrically inclined) from the Shady Valley Central Town Sprawling Hills Shopping Mall. A hop, skip, and a moderately long jump later, our excursion through the economy takes us to the front door of the 4M Cable Television Company where I hope to discover why last month's cable bill included a $3,569 charge for something called "The Vacation Channel." I didn't even know I had a vacation channel. (But, I'm sure it's a great channel, and if I don't have it, then I will certainly subscribe. Please don't disconnect me.)

Of course, because this an afternoon workday, the doors of the 4M office are locked. I can almost make out, through the expensive stained glass windows, what appears to be several Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television employees, with champaign bottles in hand, dancing on expensive mahogany desks. Let's not disturb them. As they say in the cable business, an upset worker is a disconnected customer.
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