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ECONOMIC THINKING: A way of looking at, and analyzing, the way the world works by comparing the costs of an action with the benefits generated. Economic thinking arises from scarcity, which exists because wants and needs and unlimited but resources are limited. This means virtually all actions incur an opportunity cost. Identifying the cost of an action, no matter how hidden or subtle it may be, is the essence of economic thinking.
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HORIZONTAL MERGER The consolidation of two or more separately-owned businesses, operating in the same industry and producing competing products, into a single firm. This is one of three types of mergers. The other two are vertical merger--two firms in different stages of the production of one good--and conglomerate merger--two firms in separate, unrelated industries.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction trying to buy either decorative garden figurines or a wall poster commemorating last Friday (you know why). Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers. Your Complete Scope
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Lombard Street is London's equivalent of New York's Wall Street.
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. " -- Robert Louis Stephenson, writer
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