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HOT MONEY: Financial capital that quickly moves from one financial asset to another in search of or with expectations of higher interest rates and return. Hot money can move from one bank to another or from one country to another. For banks, hot money usually refers to deposits that exceed FDIC insured limits that bounce around from bank to bank as interest rates change. For countries, hot money refers to financial capital that quickly leaves one country due to exchange rates, interest rate differentials, or economic turmoil, or the threat of war.

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SUPPLY SPACE:

The area on or above a supply curve that indicates all possible price-quantity combinations acceptable to sellers. Buyers are willing and able to purchase any price-quantity combination that places them on or above the supply curve, but not above.
Supply space includes all combinations of price and quantity supplied that are acceptable to sellers. It includes every price down to the minimum supply price for a given quantity supplied. Alternatively, it includes every quantity up to the maximum quantity supplied for a given supply price.

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The exhibit at the right illustrates the supply space for stuffed Yellow Tarantulas, a cute and cuddly stuffed creature from the Wacky Willy Stuffed Amigos line of collectibles. Supply space is the highlighted area above (and including) the supply curve. This space contains all price-quantity combinations acceptable to sellers.

More Than A Curve

While the supply side of the market is usually represented by a supply curve, the selling process is often best reflected by the entire supply space. Buyers can operate anywhere within this space. It could be on the supply curve itself or far above the line.

The supply curve actually only represents the lower boundary of the willingness and ability to sell. Invoking the observation that people prefer more to less means that the supply price on the supply curve is the lowest price, the minimum price, that sellers are willing and able to accept. However, sellers are also willing and able to receive more that the supply price for a given quantity. In fact, the higher the better.

Suppose, for example, that sellers are faced with selling 400 Yellow Tarantulas. They are willing and able to accept $25 each, the supply price on the supply curve. Higher prices, however, are also acceptable. Is $35 each acceptable? Certainly. How about $45? No question. Are sellers willing and able to accept as much as $100,000? Without a doubt. All of these prices place the sellers in the supply space.

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