|
|
LOAN LOSS RESERVES: A special account set aside by banks acting as a buffer between deposits and net worth that's used in case a loan is not repaid. Without this reserve, an unpaid loan on the asset side of a bank's balance sheet would require an adjustment of deposits or net worth on the liability side. The loan loss reserve is used for this adjustment.
Visit the GLOSS*arama
|
|
|
|
|
INCREASING-COST INDUSTRY A perfectly competitive industry with a positively-sloped long-run industry supply curve that results because expansion of the industry causes higher production cost and resource prices. An increasing-cost industry occurs because the entry of new firms, prompted by an increase in demand, causes the long-run average cost curve of each firm to shift upward, which increases the minimum efficient scale of production.
Complete Entry | Visit the WEB*pedia |
|
|
PURPLE SMARPHIN
[What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction hoping to buy either a handcrafted bird house or a weathervane with a chicken on top. Be on the lookout for rusty deck screws.
Your Complete Scope
This isn't me! What am I?
|
|
|
Mark Twain said "I wonder how much it would take to buy soap buble if there was only one in the world."
|
|
|
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
|
|
G-7
Group of Seven
|
|
|
Tell us what you think about AmosWEB. Like what you see? Have suggestions for improvements? Let us know. Click the User Feedback link.
User Feedback
|
|
