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U.S. TREASURY BILL: One kind of government security issued by the U. S. Treasury to obtain the funds used to finance the federal budget deficit. A Treasury bill (or T-bill) has a maturity length of one year or less, with 90 days a common maturity. T-bills, together with short-term commercial paper issued by businesses, are traded in money markets. The interest rate on T-bills is one of the key indicators of short-run economic activity.
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GOVERNMENT FAILURES Inefficiencies in the allocation of resources attributable to imperfections in the operation of governments. Government failures are based on the utility-maximizing behavior of politicians, voters, nonvoters, special interest groups, and government employees. The identification and analysis of government failures is central to the study of public choice and offers something of a counterbalance to government actions designed to address the inefficiencies of market failures.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex looking to buy either any book written by Isaac Asimov or a how-to book on building remote controlled airplanes. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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North Carolina supplied all the domestic gold coined for currency by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia until 1828.
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. " -- Albert Einstein, physicist
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OECD
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
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