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PRICE CEILING: A legally established maximum price. The government is occasionally inclined to keep the price of one good or another from rising too high. Examples include apartments, gasoline, and natural gas. While the goal is invariably a noble one--like keeping stuff affordable for poor people--a price ceiling often does more harm than good. First, it usually creates a shortage, meaning that many of the buyers who being protected against high prices, can't even buy the good. Second, as a consequence of this shortage, a price ceiling is likely to generate a black market where the good is sold illegally above the price ceiling.
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CREDIT UNIONS Non-profit depository financial institutions that were originally established to provide members of a specific group, such as employees of a company, with low-cost personal loans higher interest on deposits than available through traditional banks. Credit unions are chartered and regulated by the National Credit Union Administration. While credit unions are not "officially" chartered as banks, similar to other thrift institutions (savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks) they do function comparable to any traditional bank, offering a wide range of deposits, loans, and other financial services.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex hoping to buy either a genuine down-filled comforter or a 200-foot blue garden hose. Be on the lookout for door-to-door salesmen.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." -- Rene Descartes
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BHC
Bank Holding Company
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