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GOLD STANDARD: Use of gold as the standard for valuing a nation's currency. A gold standard can take at least three different forms, most of which have been part of the American economic landscape. (1) Gold is used as the money in circulation. (2) Gold is used to back up paper money in circulation. This involves the use of something like a gold certificate, such that the number of certificates in circulation is the same as the amount of gold stored someplace like Fort Knox. (3) Gold is used to fix the exchange price of paper currency in circulation. In this case, the currency could, in principle, be exchanged for some predetermined amount of gold. In other words, the price of gold is fixed in terms of dollars.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP A special sort of human effort that takes on the risk of bringing labor, capital, and land together and organizing production. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are labor, capital, and land.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing through a long list of dot com websites seeking to buy either storage boxes for your family photos or a large, stuffed giraffe. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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The average length of a "business lunch" is about 36 minutes.
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -- Anne Frank
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CPI
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