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SEVERANCE TAX: A tax on the value of raw materials, such as minerals and fossil fuels, when they are extracted from the environment. This is one of those hidden, unpublicized taxes on producers that is ultimately passed along consumers.
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FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE A committee of the Federal Reserve Board that is charged with conducting open market operations and is more generally responsible for guiding monetary policy. It is comprised of the 7 members of the Board of Governors and the Presidents of 5 Federal Reserve District Banks. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets about eight times a years, on average every six weeks, usually on a Tuesday, to set the course of monetary policy. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is also the Chairman of the FOMC. The President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is always on this committee and is invariably selected as the Vice Chairman of the FOMC.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching the newspaper want ads trying to buy either storage boxes for your winter clothes or several magazines on time travel. Be on the lookout for attractive cable television service repair people.
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Okun's Law posits that the unemployment rate increases by 1% for every 2% gap between real GDP and full-employment real GDP.
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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." -- George E. Woodberry, Author
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IADB
Inter-American Development Bank
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