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BUSINESS: A profit-motivated organization that combines resources for the production and supply of goods and services. The term business is often used synonymously with the term firm. If there is any difference, and a subtle difference at that, the term business usually refers to a productive organization that is privately owned and motivated by the pursuit of profit. A firm, in contrast, could also refer to nonprofit and/or publicly controlled productive organizations. But this distinction is quite subtle and for most economic analyses the terms firm and business are used interchangeably. Profit-motivated businesses are organized as either a proprietorship (1 owner) with unlimited liability, a partnership (2 or more equal owners) with unlimited liability, or a corporation that issues limited liability stock ownership shares.
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STATISTICAL DISCREPANCY The official adjustment factor in the National Income and Product Accounts that ensures equality between the income and expenditures approaches to measuring gross domestic product. This is one of several differences between national income (the resource cost of production) and gross (and net) domestic product (the market value of production). It is also the key difference between gross domestic income and gross domestic product. This statistical discrepancy tends to be relatively small, usually less than 1 percent of gross domestic product.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market wanting to buy either a handcrafted bird feeder or a New York Yankees baseball cap. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door.
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The earliest known use of paper currency was about 1270 in China during the rule of Kubla Khan.
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"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout. " -- Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer
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