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FDIC: The abbreviation for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is a program established by Congress in 1933, during the worst of the Great Depression, to insure the deposits of failed banks. The FDIC operates much like any private insurance company. It collects insurance premiums from its customers--the banks--in return for the assurance that it will stand behind, or be ready to pay off, any deposits that the banks can't.
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FIRST-DEGREE PRICE DISCRIMINATION A form of price discrimination in which a seller charges the highest price that buyers are willing and able to pay for each quantity of output sold. This is also termed perfect price discrimination because the seller is able to extract ALL consumer surplus from the buyers. This is one of three price discrimination degrees. The others are second-degree price discrimination and third-degree price discrimination.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction trying to buy either a wall poster commemorating the moon landing or storage boxes for your winter clothes. Be on the lookout for deranged pelicans.
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The wealthy industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, was once removed from a London tram because he lacked the money needed for the fare.
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. " -- Sir Edmund Hillary, Explorer
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IBRD
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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