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X-M: The abbreviation for net exports, which is the difference between exports, goods and services produced by the domestic economy and purchased by the foreign sector, and imports, goods and services produced by the foreign sector and purchased by the domestic economy. While exports and imports important unto themselves, when combined into a single measure net exports captures the overall interaction between the foreign sector and the domestic economy. Arithmetically speaking, if exports exceed imports, then net exports are positive, and if imports exceed exports, the net exports are negative.
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GREEN LOGIGUIN
Your compete MICRO*scope for today
You are the type of person who would get the word "level-headed" tattooed on your forehead if you thought the benefits of doing so matched the costs. Family and friends are tired of you using the phrases "on the one hand" and "other the other hand". Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction hoping to buy either a decorative windchime with plastic or a flower arrangement for that special day for your mother. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude. You should consider shopping at stores or businesses beginning with the letter X, but do not buy any products with a serial number or product code containing the number 925544. Your preferred shopping venue is strip malls. Your special symbol is the equal sign (=).
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As a Green Logiguin, you seek a balance in life and your market activities. You are logical and reasonable, always seeking to weigh costs and benefits, pros and cons, ups and downs, ins and outs, goods and bads. You are the embodiment of yin and yang. You know that there are two sides to every story and every market exchange. Sometimes you buy. Sometimes you sell. You search out the best deals, with the highest quality and lowest price.
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CARDINAL UTILITY The notion that utility--the satisfaction of wants and needs achieved through the consumption of goods and services--can be measured with numerical values (1, 2, 3, etc.) that are based on a benchmark scale. Cardinal utility presumes that satisfaction is a measurable characteristic of a person, like height or weight. The contrasting notion is ordinal utility, which is based on a ranking of preferences.
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The Depths Of DEPRESSIONIn the discussion of recession we see that one of the problems confronting both pedestrians and the economy is stepping in an occasional pothole. These potholes are usually small and do little damage. Every now and then, however, our economy falls face first into one humdinger of pothole that's big enough to swallow the better part of a marching band. Rather than a mere recessionary pothole, these are best thought of as depressionary canyons. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most memorable depressionary canyon on record for the good old U. S. of A. The question we need to ponder over the next few pages is: Are there any more depressionary canyons like the 1930s lurking along the economic pavement?
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The earliest known use of paper currency was about 1270 in China during the rule of Kubla Khan.
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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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JPAM Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
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