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SOLIDARITY: The rallying cry for organized labor and the labor union movement that has attempted to cut across industries and occupations, based on an "us versus them" view of the labor market. The "us" are the workers and the "them" are the employers. This solidarity notion presumes that when one worker wins a battle against an employer then all workers win.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking
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Goldsmith Reserves
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Knights make gold deposits, others withdraw gold, merchants seek investment loans, and others repay loans. Fred must keep sufficient gold to satisfy any withdrawal. Required reserves: - Fred concludes that he needs no more than 10 pounds of gold to back each 100 pounds of gold deposits.
- He doesn't need to keep 100% of the deposits in reserves.
Fred has discovered modern fractional-reserve banking. Excess Reserves: - Fred uses the other 90% for the loans which earn interest and make his business a profitable one.
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STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment caused by a mismatch between workers' skills and the skills needed for available jobs. Structural unemployment essentially occurs because resources, especially labor, are configured (trained) for a given technology but the economy demands goods and services using another technology. Employers seek workers who have one type of skill and workers seeking employment have a different type of skill. This mismatch in skills, largely the result of technological progress, creates unemployment of the structural variety. Structural unemployment is one of four unemployment sources. The other three are cyclical unemployment, seasonal unemployment, and frictional unemployment. Frictional and structural unemployment are the two components of natural unemployment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale wanting to buy either a genuine down-filled pillow or one of those "hang in there" kitty cat posters. Be on the lookout for rusty deck screws.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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