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FEATHERBEDDING: A labor union practice of artificially increasing the number of workers employed even though the specific job or task can be completed with fewer workers. This can be done mandating that specific jobs be performed only by workers with specific skill levels or be mandating that a certain number of workers are needed to perform a job or task. By increasing the demand for workers, featherbedding also keeps wages higher.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 1: Adjustments
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There are three basic questions about market changes which we need to ask in this lesson. Three questions: - What causes the market to move? What shocks the market? What disrupts the market from it's existing equilibrium?
- What are the consequences of the move to the market? What is the price and quantity at the new market equilibrium?
- Is the market move good or bad? How does the new equilibrium compare with the old? Is the price higher or lower? Is the quantity greater or less? Three Questions
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RECOVERY The early phase of a business-cycle expansion that occurs shortly after a contraction has ended. During a recovery, the unemployment rate remains relatively high, but is beginning to fall, and real gross domestic product begins to increase, usually rapidly. However, because the contraction remains fresh in the minds of many, it may not be immediately clear that the trough of the contraction has actually ended.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time waiting for visits from door-to-door solicitors looking to buy either a handcrafted bird feeder or a New York Yankees baseball cap. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys.
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A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
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"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. " -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
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