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ADVERTISING: Information provided about a product by a company to promote or maintain sales, revenue, and or profit. Advertising is often an explicit method of signalling that sellers use to provide information to buyers. The primary objective of advertising from the sellers perspective is to increase (or at least maintain) demand for a product. To accomplish this objective advertising provides buyers with two important types of information -- prices and product quality.
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Lesson 19: Money Creation | Unit 5: Policy
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Controlling the money creation process is the key to understanding the role that money plays in the economy. In the old days: - Money was issued by government. With print and mint they had complete control over the quantity of money.
In the modern economy:- Checkable deposits are directly under the control of commercial banks. Government must control banks to control money.
Some history:- In the late 1800s, banks ran amuck, creating money as they saw fit. The economy experienced perpetual turmoil.
- In the 1970s and 1980s, S&Ls had instability problems.
- Since the mid 1980's, money creation has been under control. The economy has been strong and growing.
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GOOD A physical, tangible item or product used to satisfy wants and needs. A good is produced using society's resources and represents a fundamental aspect of the economy. Limited resources are used to produced the goods that satisfy unlimited wants and needs in an ongoing effort to address the problem of scarcity.
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BROWN PRAGMATOX [What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time visiting every yard sale in a 30-mile radius wanting to buy either a pair of designer sunglasses or looseleaf notebook paper. Be on the lookout for bottles of barbeque sauce that act TOO innocent. Your Complete Scope
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act." -- Abraham Maslow, Psychologist
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EGARCH Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity
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