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RECESSION: The common term used for the contraction phase of the business cycle. A general period of declining economic activity. During a recession, real gross domestic product declines by 10 percent or so and the unemployment rate rises from it's full employment 5 percent level up to the 6 to 10 percent range. Inflation tends to be low or non-existent during a recession. Recession last anywhere from six to eighteen months, with one year being common.
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WHITE GULLIBON
Your compete MICRO*scope for today
You are the type of person who watches a lot of television, because your television friends never lie to you. Family and friends often hit you up for loans. Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching infomercials looking to buy either a wall poster commemorating the moon landing or storage boxes for your winter clothes. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers. You should consider shopping at stores or businesses beginning with the letter A, but do not buy any products with a serial number or product code containing the number 457976. Your preferred shopping venue is television shopping channels. Your special symbol is the minus sign (-).
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As a White Gullibon, you are extremely trusting but somewhat impressionable, seeing only the good in other people. You tend to be a bit naive in the wily ways of the marketplace and thus are often exploited by others, especially the Reg Aggressorine. Like it or not, you are the poster child for the phrase "let the buyer beware." You are empathetic to the plight of others, often to your own detriment.
This isn't me! What am I?
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PERFECT COMPETITION, LOSS MINIMIZATION A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that minimizes economic losses, if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and shutdown (if price is less than average variable cost).
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Pumping Up The ECONOMIC GROWTHWe need to pay another visit to Scarcity Stan's Ye Olde Bakery Shoppe and Confectionery Palace. But this is not a social visit, nor is intended for some delectable pastries that will add a few extra pounds to our waistlines. We're here on official economic business. Stan's at wits end. He doesn't know what to do. There's been so much demand for his economic pie, what with society's unlimited wants and needs, that he needs to make it bigger. Our job is to figure out how. While we're doing that, we'll also see how to put our economy on the path to economic growth.
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A U.S. dime has 118 groves around its edge, one fewer than a U.S. quarter.
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"Confidence . . . thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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HDI
Human Development Index
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