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COINCIDENT ECONOMIC INDICATOR: One of four economic statistics that tend to move up and down with the expansions and contractions of the business cycle. You can get a pretty good idea of what our economy's doing RIGHT NOW by looking at these. Coincident economic indicators are measurements that move with the aggregate economy. When a contraction starts, these indicators decline. During an expansion. these indicators rise. These indicators, and their siblings, leading economic indicators and lagging economic indicators are compiled by their parents, those pointy-headed economist at National Bureau of Economic Research.
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BARTER ECONOMY An economy that trades goods and services predominately using barter exchanges rather than money. Barter economies predated the invention of money, emerging out the early stage of self-sufficiency before giving way to the use of commodity money. However, barter economies occasionally surface in modern times, especially when the public loses confidence in the monetary unit during a government crises or a period of hyperinflation.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time waiting for visits from door-to-door solicitors wanting to buy either a coffee cup commemorating yesterday or a replacement remote control for your television. Be on the lookout for malfunctioning pocket calculators.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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