INTEREST: Payments for the use of borrowed funds. Interest is most commonly expressed as a percent of the borrowed funds, which is an interest rate. Interest is payment lenders receive as an incentive to forego funds that can be used to acquire current consumption.

     See also | interest rate | net interest | opportunity cost | investment | capital | dividend | financial markets | yield | prime rate | federal funds rate | interest-rate effect | government borrowing | investment borrowing |

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In the circular flow, the transfer of money in payment in exchange for the counter-clockwise physical flow of goods and services. The payment flow is the monetary payment for goods and services received by the household sector from the business sector through product markets and the monetary payment for resource services obtained by the business sector from the household sector through resource markets. The payment flow is usually illustrated as a clockwise flow for a model with the product markets at the top, resource markets at the bottom, household sector at the left, and business sector at the left. The physical flow moves in the opposite direction.

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