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COMMODITY EXCHANGE: A financial market that trades the ownership of various commodities, such as wheat, corn, cotton, sugar, crude oil, natural gas, gold, silver, and aluminum. The two biggest commodity exchanges in good old U. S. of A. are the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Unlike, let's say a grocery store where commodities physically trade hands, commodity exchanges trade only legal ownership. This is much like a stock market, which trades the ownership of a corporation, but leaves the factory at home. Commodity markets offer two basic sorts of trading -- spot (immediate delivery of a commodity) and futures (delivery of a commodity at a future date).
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Unit 1: Selling Basics |
Unit 2: Law of Supply |
Unit 3: Supply Curve |
Unit 4: Determinants |
Unit 5: Scarcity |
Unit 6:
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Supply
This supply lesson provides an introduction into selling a wide range of goods. In fact, this supply topic does more than offer insight into selling behavior. It's also the second half of the market analysis -- the first half being demand. And to reiterate what I noted during the demand lesson, market analysis is one of the most widely used tools in the study of economics that can be used to explain a lot of economic phenomenon. Of course to use markets, we need both demand and supply. And supply part is our current lesson. - The first unit of this lesson introduces the basic concept of supply and a few related terms such as supply price and quantity supplied.
- In the second unit then we move into a discussion of the law of supply, which captures the basic relation between supply price and quantity supplied.
- The third unit then develops the supply curve, which is the graphical embodiment of the supply concept.
- Moving onto the fourth unit, we examine how the five basic supply determinants cause the supply curve to shift from one location to another.
- And in the fifth and final unit, we make a connection between supply and the limited resources part of scarcity.
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UNIT ELASTIC An elasticity alternative in which changes in one variable (usually price) cause equal proportional changes in another variable (usually quantity). In other words, any change in price, whether big or small, triggers exactly the same percentage change in quantity. Quantity changes match price changes. This characterization of elasticity is most important for the price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply. Unit elastic is one of five elasticity alternatives. The other four are perfectly elastic, perfectly inelastic, relatively elastic, and relatively inelastic.
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The first paper currency used in North America was pasteboard playing cards "temporarily" authorized as money by the colonial governor of French Canada, awaiting "real money" from France.
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