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TRADITIONAL BANK: The original type of commercial bank that handled customer deposits and made investment loans to businesses. Traditional banks, chartered at the national, state, or local levels, were the only entities legally able to issue checking accounts prior to the 1980s. While still dominant in the banking industry, traditional banks are joined by savings and loan associations, credit unions, and mutual savings banks.

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MONETARY UNIT: The official (or sometimes unofficial) money used as the medium of exchange for an economy, and by extension as the unit of account for specifying prices. In the United States, for example, the monetary unit is the dollar. Other nations have different money and different monetary units. Germany uses the mark, Japan uses the yen, and England uses the pound.

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PRICE FLOOR

A legally established minimum price that is imposed on a market ABOVE the price that otherwise would be achieved in equilibrium. A price floor is placed on a market with the goal of keeping the price high, presumably based on the notion that the equilibrium price is too low. If imposed on a competitive market free of market failures, a price floor creates a surplus, or excess supply.

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