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BLUE CHIP: The corporate stock of relatively large, good old U. S. of A. companies that tend to be consistently profitable, pay out consistently high dividends, and are consistently stable force in the economy. The blue chip stocks are often considered synonymous with those included in Dow Jones averages.
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X-INEFFICIENCY: Cost that is higher than it needs to be because a firm is operating inefficiently. This is most often seen for firms that have a great deal of market control, especially monopoly. The lack of competition allows a business to pad it's expenses, hire unneeded employees (like relatives), goof off instead of working, and all sorts of other things that lessen production and increase cost. The business is not penalized for these actions, because market control allows the company to extract whatever price is needed to cover cost. See also | economic rent | profit | opportunity cost | efficiency | market control | monopoly | natural monopoly | average-cost pricing | public utility |
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LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL RETURNS A principle of short-run production stating that as a firm combines more of a variable input with a fixed input, the marginal product of the variable input eventually declines. This is THE economic principle underlying the analysis of short-run production for a firm. It offers an explanation for the law of supply and the positive slope of the market supply curve.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for rummage sales seeking to buy either a video camera with stop action features or one of those memory foam pillows. Be on the lookout for vindictive digital clocks with revenge on their minds.
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The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin with the likeness of a U.S. President.
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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. " -- Albert Einstein
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AOM
Australian Options Market
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