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SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION: A depository institution chartered by the Federal Home Loan Bank that was established to assist home owners with low-cost mortgage loans using savings deposits. However, S&Ls have expanded their activities and now provide most of the services of traditional banks, including checkable deposits.

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ADVERSE SELECTION

An inefficient, bad, or adverse outcome of a market exchange that results because buyers and/or sellers make decisions based on asymmetric information. This commonly results in a market that exchanges a lesser quality good, what is termed the market for lemons. Two related problems resulting from asymmetric information are moral hazard and the principal-agent problem. Two methods of lessoning the problem of adverse selection are signalling and screening.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market seeking to buy either a birthday greeting card for your aunt or a wall poster commemorating the moon landing. Be on the lookout for cardboard boxes.
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The wealthy industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, was once removed from a London tram because he lacked the money needed for the fare.
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