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PLASTIC MONEY: A slang phrase for credit cards, especially when such cards used to make purchases. The "plastic" portion of this term refers to the plastic construction of credit cards, as opposed to paper and metal of currency. The "money" portion is an erroneous reference to credit cards as a form of money, which they are not. Although credit cards do facilitate transactions, because they are a liability rather than an asset, they are not money and not part of the economy's money supply.
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FIXED INVESTMENT Capital investment expenditures for factories, machinery, tools, and buildings. 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 change in private inventories. This category is generally about 95 to 97 percent of gross private domestic investment and includes the capital goods that best reflect what most people consider capital investment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet looking to buy either a 50-foot blue garden hose or a turbo-powered vacuum cleaner. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots.
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One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings.
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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." -- Ann Landers, columnist
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NAIRU
Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
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