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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: A group that has more to gain or lose from some candidate, issue, or policy and thus tries extra hard to ensure that the political system is aware of their preferences. Some special interest groups can be fairly tame, merely voting in elections for their chosen candidate, while others are quite active. The more active ones form political action committees and undertake all forms of lobbying (legal and illegal). The ultimate success of special interest groups arises from the inclination of other people to choose rational ignorance and rational abstention.
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WHITE GULLIBON
Your compete MICRO*scope for today
You are the type of person who can be easily led astray as you wander through the maze of your life. Family and friends use your kitchen to store lawn equipment. Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area looking to buy either a coffee cup commemorating next Thursday or a replacement remote control for your stereo system. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers. You should consider shopping at stores or businesses beginning with the letter J, but do not buy any products with a serial number or product code containing the number 796879. 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.
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LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY A principle stating that as the quantity of a good consumed increases, eventually each additional unit of the good provides less additional utility--that is, marginal utility decreases. Each subsequent unit of a good is valued less than the previous one. The law of diminishing marginal utility helps to explain the negative slope of the demand curve and the law of demand.
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A Translation Of FOREIGN INVESTMENTTHIS MEANS WAR!! Batten down the hatches. Circle the wagons! Sound the alarm! Head for the fallout shelter! Those seemingly quaint and courteous folk from the Republic of Northwest Queoldiola have upset the delicate balance of world peace. Perhaps I should explain. A group of investors from Northwest Queoldiola have been snooping around Shady Valley with the evil intentions of buying Shady Valley's very own Sonny Sullivan Sundials Extraordinaire manufacturing plant. How dare they! This is the good old U. S. of A. We don't want any foreigners buying up good old U. S. of A. property, do we? Before nuking Northwest Queoldiola we should consider this potentially messy topic of foreign investment.
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The Dow Jones family of stock market price indexes began with a simple average of 11 stock prices in 1884.
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain
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FCLT
Functional Central Limit Theorem
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