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INSIDER TRADING: The buying and selling of corporate stock or other financial instruments based on knowledge that is not widely available to the general public. Insider trading is most often undertaken by corporate executives or directors using information that they have acquired by working "inside" the company. Insider trading is illegal because it gives an unfair advantage to those on the inside. The president of a pharmaceutical company might be inclined to sell stock in the company using advanced information that the government is about to decline the patent application for a new drug.
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Lesson 5: Market Demand | Unit 5: Scarcity
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- Why scarcity and unlimited wants and needs are the source of demand.
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WHAT? The allocation question that determines the types and quantities of goods and services produced with society's limited resources. What goods and services are produced with society's limited resources? This is one of three basic questions of allocation. The other two are How? and For Whom?
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In his older years, Andrew Carnegie seldom carried money because he was offended by its sight and touch.
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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JEMS Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
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