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ACTIVIST POLICY: Government policies that involve explicit actions designed to achieve specific goals. A common type of activist policy is that designed to stabilize business cycles, reduce unemployment, and lower inflation, through government spending and taxes (fiscal policy) or the money supply (monetary policy). Activist policies are also term discretionary policies because they involve discretionary decisions by government. A contrast to activist policy is automatic stabilizers that help stabilize business cycles without explicit government actions.
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MONEY MARKET DEPOSITS Interest-paying bank accounts maintained by traditional commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks that pay higher interest rates than standard savings accounts, but with minimum balance requirements and limited check writing capabilities. Money market deposit accounts were developed by banks in response to money market mutual funds offered by mutual fund companies. These deposits are typically considered a type of savings deposits, along with passbook accounts and share accounts. Money market deposits, along with these other savings deposits and assorted near monies, are added to M1 to derive M2.
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The 22.6% decline in stock prices on October 19, 1987 was larger than the infamous 12.8% decline on October 29, 1929.
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"Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems. " -- Malcolm Forbes, business executive
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