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SATISFACTION: The process of successfully fulfilling wants and needs. A basic fact of life is that people want and need stuff to stay alive and to make that life more enjoyable. Satisfaction is the economic term that captures this wants-and-needs-fulfilling process. Satisfying wants and needs is actually the ultimate goal of economic activity, the end result of addressing the fundamental problem of scarcity, and, when you get right down to it, life itself.
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LONG RUN, MACROECONOMICS In terms of the macroeconomic analysis of the aggregate market, a period of time in which all prices, especially wages, are flexible, and are able to achieve equilibrium levels. This is one of two macroeconomic time designations; the other is the short run. Long-run wage and price flexibility means that ALL markets, including resource markets and most notably labor markets, are in equilibrium, with neither surpluses nor shortages. Wage and price flexibility and the resulting resource market equilibria are the reason for the vertical long-run aggregate supply curve.
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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 how-to book on fine dining or a coffee cup commemorating the first day of winter. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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A U.S. dime has 118 groves around its edge, one fewer than a U.S. quarter.
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"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it." -- Earl Wilson, Columnist
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EEO
Equal Employment Opportunity
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