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CENTRAL BANK: The banking authority of a nation that's in charge of ensuring a sound money supply and conducting the country's monetary policy. It's usually authorized by, and works closely with, the government to achieve full employment, low inflation rates , economic growth, and all of the other goals that make people happy, healthy, and wise. Unlike many other nations, which have a single central bank, the good old U. S. of A. actually has a de-central bank.
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Lesson 7: Market | Unit 1: The Exchange
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- The concept of markets as voluntary trades among buyers and sellers that is used to address the scarcity problem.
- Four key points about markets:
- They combine demand and supply.
- They trade goods, services, and resources.
- They are voluntary.
- They are analyzed over a give time period.
- Examples of different markets, ranging from a formal, organized stock market to a less formal, less organized rummage sale.
- The nature of market equilibrium as a balance of the forces of demand and supply.
- How market equilibrium is indicated by the equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price.
- The importance of competition to the efficient operation of markets and how the number of participants determines competition among buyers and sellers.
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AVERAGE FACTOR COST CURVE, PERFECT COMPETITION A curve that graphically represents the relation between average factor cost incurred by a perfectly competitive firm for employing an input and the quantity of input used. Because average factor cost is essentially the price of the input, the average factor cost curve is also the supply curve for the input. The average factor cost curve for a perfectly competitive firm with no market control is horizontal. The average revenue curve for a firm with market control is positively sloped.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a New York Yankees baseball cap or several magazines on home repairs. Be on the lookout for gnomes hiding in cypress trees.
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A U.S. dime has 118 groves around its edge, one fewer than a U.S. quarter.
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." -- Claire Boothe Luce, diplomat, writer
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