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INSTRUMENT: Another term for a financial or legal claim on the physical goods, services, and resources of real side of the economy. Instruments are the means by which income is diverted between household, business, and government sectors. Common instruments are corporate stocks, government bonds, and paper currency.
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STORE OF VALUE The money function in which money is used as a means of postponing the satisfaction obtained from using or consuming goods until a later time. Value is obtained from a good when it is consumed, when it is used to satisfy wants and needs. The value from consuming goods can be stored in several different ways, one of which is money. This is one of four basic functions of money. The other three are medium of exchange, unit of account, and standard of deferred payment.
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A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
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