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LINE ITEM VETO: A policy intended to address the efficiency caused by legislative logrolling by giving executive officers who have veto authority over legislation (Presidents, Governors, Mayors), the ability to veto specific sections of a legislative act rather than the entire act. With a standard veto, the executive vetoes the entire piece of legislation. With line item veto, the executive can veto only parts of the legislation while signing the rest of it into law. While a line item veto is likely to reduce logrolling, it effectively gives the executive officer more power and authority.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 4: Regulating Banks
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Banking is a heavily regulated industry. Reasons: - First: Banks have the temptation to go for large profits at the expense of protecting deposits.
- Second: The economy's health rests with having the 'correct' money supply.
The problems: - Banks get carried away seeking profits without having enough deposit-protecting reserves.
- Customers can't withdraw deposits and lose trust.
- Banks shut down, remaining bank deposits become worthless, and the money supply shrinks.
- The economy heads into a recession.
Important points: - A failed bank is bad for the economy.
- Government can control the checking account part of money only by controlling and regulating banks.
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VERIFICATION The hypothesis-testing step of the scientific method in which the hypothesized implication of a theory is compared against real world events and data. This verification can provide support or refutation of the hypothesis. Enough support enables a hypothesis to become a principle. Refutation calls into question the theory implying the hypothesis. In either event, further analysis is indicated.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing about a thrift store looking to buy either throw pillows for your bed or a package of blank rewritable CDs. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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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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"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. " -- Benjamin Franklin, statesman
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CUUS
Comsumer Union of the United States
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