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SOLVENCY: The condition of a business when liabilities (excluding any ownership equity) are less than assets. In other words, the business is doing fine and able to pay all of it's debts. This is most important when contrasted with the alternative, insolvency.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking
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The story continues when Elizabeth the Innkeeper needs to expand her business and ask Fred for a loan. The story: - Elizabeth's business is booming, but she is temporarily short of money, short of gold.
- She asks Fred for a loan of gold that belongs to Bill the Knight that Fred keeps on his safe.
- Elizabeth is willing to pay Fred a sizable fee for taking the risk of making this loan.
- Fred makes the loan.
- Elizabeth expands her inn, she repays the loan on schedule with interest with profit from business.
- Bill collects his gold upon returning.
- Other local merchants soon seek interest lending services from Fred.
Fred has discovered the lending function of modern banks.
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MARGINAL FACTOR COST CURVE, PERFECT COMPETITION A curve that graphically represents the relation between marginal factor cost incurred by a perfectly competitive firm for hiring an input and the quantity of input employed. A profit-maximizing perfectly competitive firm hires the quantity of input found at the intersection of the marginal factor cost curve and marginal revenue product curve. The marginal factor cost curve for a perfectly competitive firm with no market control is horizontal.
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BLUE PLACIDOLA [What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center wanting to buy either a 50 foot extension cord or a combination CD player, clock radio, and telephone (with answering machine). Be on the lookout for cardboard boxes. Your Complete Scope
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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