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INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT: A savings retirement account set up with a bank, mutual fund, brokerage firm that allows people to set aside a portion of their income each year. Like other private pension plans, income diverted to an individual retirement account (or IRA) is tax deferred, that is, taxes on not paid on the income until it is withdrawn during retirement.
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Lesson 17: Money | Unit 2: More About Money
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Money has four important functions. Four functions: - Medium of exchange: Money makes it easier to buy, sell, produce, and consume goods and services.
- Measure of value: Prices are stated in terms of the monetary unit.
- Store of value: Value can be stored over time with money.
- Standard of deferred payment: Future payments are also in terms of the monetary unit.
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SPECIALIZATION The condition in which resources are primarily devoted to specific production tasks. This is one of THE most important and most fundamental notions in the study of economics. Civilized human beings have long recognized that limited resources can be more effectively used in the production of the goods and services that satisfy unlimited wants and needs if those resources specialize.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area looking to buy either a video camera with stop action features or one of those memory foam pillows. Be on the lookout for defective microphones. Your Complete Scope
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. " -- President Thomas Jefferson
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MFC Marginal Factor Cost
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