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ABSOLUTE POVERTY: The amount of income a person or family needs to purchase an absolute amount of the basic necessities of life. These basic necessities are identified in terms of calories of food, BTUs of energy, square feet of living space, etc. The problem with the absolute poverty level is that there really are no absolutes when in comes to consuming goods. You can consume a given poverty level of calories eating relatively expensive steak, relatively inexpensive pasta, or garbage from a restaurant dumpster. The income needed to acquire each of these calorie "minimums" vary greatly. That's why some prefer relative poverty.
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NATIONAL BANKS Traditional banks that are chartered by the Comptroller of the Currency and are automatically members of the Federal Reserve System. The contrast to national banks are state banks, which are chartered by one of the fifty states. National banks tend to larger than state banks and whether justified or not tend to be slightly more prestigious. In the modern economy this distinction is less important than it was a few decades bank when state banks were subject to lesser state regulations than national banks.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction seeking to buy either a small, foam rubber football or an instructional DVD on learning to the play the oboe. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. " -- Winston Churchill, British statesman
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