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TAX AVOIDANCE: A legal reduction in taxes. The complexity of our system of taxes, especially income taxes, makes it extremely worthwhile to identify the mix of spending, working, and assorted activities that reduce taxes. This has also created a major industry of accountants, lawyers, educators, public speakers, and others who spend their efforts uncovering legal tax loopholes. In terms of the big efficiency picture, this is a waste of resources. Our lives would, in general, be better off if this tax avoidance industry devoted it's efforts to increasing gross domestic product rather than diverting it from one pocket to another. This, though, is not a fault of theirs, but of the tax system itself.
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CHANGE IN PRIVATE INVENTORIES The increase or decrease in the stocks of final goods, intermediate goods, raw materials, and other inputs that businesses keep on hand to use in production. Formerly termed change in business inventories, this is one of two main categories of gross private domestic investment included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other category is fixed investment. Change in private inventories tend to be about 3 to 5 percent of gross private domestic investment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel trying to buy either a weathervane with a cow on top or a box of multi-colored, plastic paper clips. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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A scripophilist is one who collects rare stock and bond certificates, usually from extinct companies.
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. " -- Seneca, Roman philosopher
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