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TOTAL UTILITY: The total satisfaction of wants and needs obtained from the use or consumption of a good and service. This term should be contrasted with the related term marginal utility. Total utility is most often used in consumer demand theory to indicate how much overall satisfaction someone obtains from a given activity.
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CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT Interest-paying bank accounts maintained by traditional commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks that stipulate a fixed interest rate and the length of maturity before the funds can be withdrawn. Certificates of deposit (CDs) pay a higher interest rate than regular savings accounts, but the funds cannot be withdraw at the full interest rate until the maturity date. These are one of two types of time deposits. The other is savings deposits. Certificates of deposit, along with savings deposits and other near monies, are added to M1 to derive M2.
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