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MARGINAL FACTOR COST AND AVERAGE FACTOR COST: The relation between marginal factor cost and average factor cost is comparable to other average-marginal relations found in the study of economics. For a firm that hires factors in a perfectly competitive factor market, marginal factor cost and average factor cost are equal, and equal to the factor market price. All three are represented by a horizontal, or perfectly elastic, curve equal to the factor market price. For a firm that hires factors in an imperfectly competitive factor market, especially monopsony, marginal factor cost is greater than both average factor cost and the factor market price.

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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 3: The Fed Pyramid Page: 8 of 20

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The 7-member Board of Governors is the policy making body of the Fed.

The Board of Governors:

  • The Board sets the regulations, rules and policies affecting the money supply and the commercial banking system.
  • Each member of the Board is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate to a 14-year term, with terms staggered every two years.
  • The system is designed to keep the Board non-political: the Board is NOT supposed to be working for the President.
  • The Fed is relatively independent of Congress, too.

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SAVING

The after-tax disposable income of the household sector that is not used for consumption expenditures. Saving primarily involves the use of income to purchase legal claims through financial markets rather than the direct purchase of physical goods and services (which is consumption expenditures). In the circular flow model, saving is the diversion of household income away from consumption expenditures and into the financial markets, which then flows to business investment expenditures and government purchases. Saving is one of two basic uses of disposable income. The other is consumption expenditures.

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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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