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PLANNED ECONOMY: An economy, or economic system, that relies heavily on central planning by government to allocate resources and answer the three basic questions of allocation. This is also commonly termed a command economy. A planned economy should be contrasted with a market-oriented economy, or capitalism. One the big spectrum of economy systems, a planned economy lies much closer to the pure command economy extreme than to the pure market economy end. The former Soviet Union and China represent the most noted examples of planned economies.
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PEAK The transition of a business-cycle expansion to a business-cycle contraction. The end of an expansion carries this descriptive term of peak, or the highest level of economic reached in recent times. A peak is one of two turning points. The other, the transition from contraction to expansion, is a trough. 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 going from convenience store to convenience store looking to buy either a birthday greeting card for your grandmother or a coffee cup commemorating yesterday. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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The average length of a "business lunch" is about 36 minutes.
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"Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. " -- Kenichi Ohmae, management consultant
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MPP
Marginal Physical Product
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