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CAPITAL MARKET: A financial market that trades bonds, stocks, or any other long-term financial instruments used by businesses to raise funds. The term "capital" comes from the notion that business commonly get their funds to finance investment in capital from these markets. Compare money market.
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AUTONOMOUS CONSUMPTION Household consumption expenditures that do not depend on income or production (especially disposable income, national income, or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income do not generate changes in consumption. Autonomous consumption is best thought of as a baseline or minimum level of consumption that the household sector undertakes in the unlikely event that income falls to zero. It is measured by the intercept term of the consumption function or the consumption line. The alternative to autonomous consumption is induced consumption, which does depend on income.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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MA(N) A nth-order Moving Average Process
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