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BALANCED BUDGET: An equality between the revenues and expenditures that constitute a budget. The notion of a budget is most important for governments, where revenues are taxes and expenditures are assorted public goods, administrative expenses, etc. While the federal government has been notorious for its failure to maintain a balanced budget, except for periods of unexpected prosperity, many state and local governments are very good at this sort of thing.
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STABILIZATION POLICIES Economic policies undertaken by governments to counteract business-cycle fluctuations and prevent high rates of unemployment and inflation. The two most common stabilization policies are fiscal and monetary. Stabilization policies are also termed countercyclical policies, meaning that they attempt to "counter" the natural ups and downs of business "cycles." Expansionary policies are appropriate to reduce unemployment during a contraction and contractionary policies are aimed at reducing inflation during an expansion.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store wanting to buy either shoe laces for your snow boots or a rim for your spare tire. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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Mark Twain said "I wonder how much it would take to buy soap buble if there was only one in the world."
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. " -- Albert Einstein
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RTA
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
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