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FIXED INVESTMENT: Capital investment expenditures for factories, machinery, tools, and buildings. This is one of two main categories of gross private domestic investment included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other category is change in business inventories. This is that category is about generally about 95-97% of gross private domestic investment and that includes the capital goods that best reflects what most people consider capital investment. This category includes factories, machinery, tools, and buildings.
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YELLOW CHIPPEROON
Your compete MICRO*scope for today
You are the type of person who is on a first name basis with every store clerk in a sixty mile radius. Family and friends seek you out when they have any old clothing, broken toys, or defective small kitchen appliances they want to sell. Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages looking to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the first day of winter or a video game player. Be on the lookout for the last item on a shelf. 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 571746. Your preferred shopping venue is shopping malls. Your special symbol is the asterisk (*).
Is this You?
As a Yellow Chipperoon, you are happy, happy, happy. You enjoy everything about life and about shopping. You love shopping. You love buying. You love spending. You love to compare products and prices. You love the crowds. You love chatting with the store clerks. You love every bit of the buying process. Nothing dissuades you from having a good time shopping, whether you're buying a box of facial tissues or a new house. Does it get any better than spending an afternoon at the shopping mall? No way!
This isn't me! What am I?
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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR URBAN WAGE EARNERS AND CLERICAL WORKERS An index of prices of goods and services typically purchased by urban wage earners and clerical workers. This carries the official abbreviation CPI-W to distinguish it from its more famous sister index CPI-U, which is the standard Consumer Price Index for All Urban Workers, (commonly abbreviated simply as CPI). Like the standard CPI, the CPI-W is compiled and published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), using price data obtained from an elaborate survey of 25,000 retail outlets and quantity data generated by the Consumer Expenditures Survey.
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The Risky Business Of INSURANCEWe've avoided the clutches of Smilin' Ted, the insurance guy, during our saunter through economy, but our luck has run out. Here he comes, ready to offer you, me, and everyone else within earshot the chance to buy auto, health, life, and property insurance. If you really, REALLY care to ask, I'm sure that Smilin' Ted has other insurance possibilities as well. But, I'm not going to ask. If YOU want to know, then YOU have to ask.
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In the Middle Ages, pepper was used for bartering, and it was often more valuable and stable in value than gold.
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"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. " -- Benjamin Franklin, statesman
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FASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
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