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INDUCED GOVERNMENT PURCHASES: Government purchases that depend on income or production (especially national income or gross national product). An increase in national income triggers an increase in induced government purchases. Induced government purchases is graphically depicted as the slope of the government purchases line and is measured by the marginal propensity for government purchases. The induced relation between income and government purchases, as well as other induced expenditures, form the foundation of the multiplier effect triggered by changes in autonomous expenditures.
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TROUGH The transition of a business-cycle contraction to a business-cycle expansion. The end of a contraction carries this descriptive term of trough, or the lowest level of economic activity reached in recent times. A trough is one of two turning points. The other, the transition from expansion to contraction, is a peak. Turning points are important because they represent the transition from bad to good or good to bad.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time calling an endless list of 800 numbers looking to buy either clothing for your kitty cats or a set of luggage without wheels. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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