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LOSS MINIMIZATION, MONOPOLY: The marginal revenue and marginal cost approach to analyzing a monopoly firm's short-run production decision can be used to identify economic loss. The U-shaped cost curves used in this analysis provides all of the information needed on the cost side of the firm's decision. The demand curve facing the firm (which is also the firm's average revenue curve) and the firm's marginal revenue curve provides the information needed on the revenue side.
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CREDIT CARD: A piece of plastic (about 2 inches by 3 1/2 inches) that authorizes a user to make use of a pre-established loan (or line of credit) with a bank, store, or other business when conducting transactions (that is, buying stuff). Credit cards a simply a means of easily and quickly borrowing the funds needed to make a purchase. Some folks confuse credit cards with money, using the term "plastic money," in that both are used to facilitate purchases. However, credit cards create a liability (the loan), while money is an asset. The only real plastic money is debit cards. See also | loan | liability | credit | money | asset | debit card | bank |
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AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES The total expenditures on gross domestic product undertaken in a given time period by the four sectors--household, business, government, and foreign. Expenditures made by each of these sectors are commonly termed consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, government purchases, and net exports. Aggregate expenditures (AE) are a cornerstone in the study of macroeconomics, playing critical roles in Keynesian economics, aggregate market analysis, and to a lesser degree, monetarism. In particular, aggregate expenditures are combined with the price level as aggregate demand.
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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. " -- George Lucas
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AR(N)
A nth-order Autoregressive Process
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