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INCOME TAX: A tax on income, including wages, rent, interest, profit, and (usually) transfer payments. The income tax system in the United States includes both a personal income tax and corporate income tax. In general, the U. S. income tax is progressive, but through a number of deductions and other loopholes, it's less so in practice that on paper.
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ALTERNATIVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES The official unemployment rate estimated and reported monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) using data from Current Population Survey is one of six alternative measures of unemployment tracked and reported by the BLS, officially labeled sequentially U1 through U6. The "official" unemployment rate is U3. The other five measures seek to document different ways in which labor can be under utilized, including unemployment duration, job losers, discouraged workers, marginal workers, and part-time workers.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing through a long list of dot com websites hoping to buy either a 200-foot blue garden hose or a video camera with stop action features. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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The earliest known use of paper currency was about 1270 in China during the rule of Kubla Khan.
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"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. " -- Annie Dillard, essayist
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LCH
Life Cycle Hypothesis
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