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FLOATING EXCHANGE RATE: An exchange rate determined through the unrestricted interaction of supply and demand in the foreign exchange market. A floating exchange rate means that a nation's government is NOT trying to manipulate currency prices to achieve some change in the exports or imports.
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TRADITIONAL BANKS The first financial intermediaries to function as depository institutions, maintain deposits, make loans, and directly control the checkable deposits portion of the economy's money supply. Traditional banks were THE original banks, the financial depository institutions first to offer checkable deposits. Traditional banks invariably have the word "bank" in their names and are charted by either the Comptroller of the Currency or one of the fifty state corporation commissions. Three other types of banks, as a group commonly termed thrift institutions, are credit unions, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store seeking to buy either a flower arrangement with a lot of roses for your grandmother or a wall poster commemorating the first day of winter. Be on the lookout for door-to-door salesmen.
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In the Middle Ages, pepper was used for bartering, and it was often more valuable and stable in value than gold.
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"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. " -- Aldous Huxley, writer
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Automated Teller Machine
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