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WHEALER-LEA ACT: This was a major amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, passed in 1938, that gave powers to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate unfair and deceptive business practices and to prevent false advertising. The Whealer-Lea Act was a major step in moving the Federal Trade Commission into its current role as more of a consumer protection agency than a monopoly buster.
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TAX MULTIPLIER A measure of the change in aggregate production caused by changes in government taxes. The tax multiplier is the negative marginal propensity to consume times one minus the slope of the aggregate expenditures line. The simple tax multiplier includes ONLY induced consumption. More complex tax multipliers include other induced components. Two related multipliers are the expenditures multiplier, which measures the change in aggregate production caused by changes in an autonomous aggregate expenditure, and the balanced-budget multiplier which measures the change in aggregate production from equal changes in both taxes and government purchases.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a small, foam rubber football or an instructional DVD on learning to the play the oboe. Be on the lookout for cardboard boxes.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. " -- Roy Disney, executive
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EMS
European Monetary System
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