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LOAN LOSS RESERVES: A special account set aside by banks acting as a buffer between deposits and net worth that's used in case a loan is not repaid. Without this reserve, an unpaid loan on the asset side of a bank's balance sheet would require an adjustment of deposits or net worth on the liability side. The loan loss reserve is used for this adjustment.
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Lesson 1: Economic Basics | Unit 3: The Economy
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- How an economy is a system of rules, procedures, and institutions designed to address the problem of scarcity.
- How a mixed economy used the two methods of allocation--markets and government.
- The continuum of real world mixed economies that are bounded by the two theoretical extremes of a pure market economy and a pure command economy.
- The degree to which the mixed U.S. economy relies on markets and government to allocate resources.
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INFORMATION The transfer of knowledge from one person to another. Information is a flow concept. It requires someone (or something) to do the sending and someone to do the receiving. Information is a valuable commodity that provides benefits, but also incurs an opportunity cost to produce, meaning information is never perfect or complete. The existence of asymmetric information (some have more information than others) gives rise to the problems of adverse selection, moral hazard, and the principal-agent problem.
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Only 1% of the U.S. population paid income taxes when the income tax was established in 1914.
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