You are the type of person who often fails to see the forest or the trees. Family and friends often hit you up for loans. Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet wanting to buy either several orange mixing bowls or clothing for your pet dog. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from former employers. You should consider shopping at stores or businesses beginning with the letter D, but do not buy any products with a serial number or product code containing the number 105581. Your preferred shopping venue is television shopping channels. Your special symbol is the minus sign (-).

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.

The four key characteristics of monopolistic competition are: (1) large number of small firms, (2) similar but not identical products sold by the firms, (3) relative freedom of entry into and exit out of the industry, and (4) extensive knowledge of prices and technology.

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It's time for another one of our frequent stops at Mr. Market Super Food Discount Store, this time to check out the story behind retail prices. As consumers, we spend a large fraction of our nonworking, nonsleeping lives wandering grocery stores aisles, searching clothing store racks, and surveying department store displays for the right product at the right price. How do we know, like the name of the long-running game show, if "The Price is Right?" How are retail prices set and do they really tell us the value of a product?
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