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absolute advantage
annual percentage rate
authoritarian socialism
bankruptcy
bear market
bull market
business cycle
capital good
capital resource
capitalism
command economy
common stock
communism
comparative advantage
conglomerate combination
consumer
contraction
corporations
credit rating
customs duty
cyclical unemployment
deflation
demand side economics
democratic socialism
depression
differentiate
discount rate
diversification
easy-money policy
economics
embargo
EU (European Union)
excise tax
expansion
externality
factor of production
financial investment
fiscal policy
fixed expense
flexible expense
franchise
free trade
frictional unemployment
Gross Domestic Product
Gross National Product
horizontal combination
human resource
hyperinflation
import quota
incentive
inflation rate
interest
law of demand
law of supply
leading indicators
liquidity
macroeconomics
market economy
maturity
merger
microeconomics
mixed economy
monetary policy
monopolistic competition
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monopoly
municipal bonds
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Agreement)
natural resource
nonprice competition
oligopoly
partnerships
peak
perfect competition
preferred stock
prime rate
principal
producer
progressive tax
proportional tax
protectionism
public good
real investment
recession
regressive tax
resource
savings rate
seasonal unemployment
sole proprietorship
stock
structural unemployment
subsidiary
supply side economics
tax rate
tight-money policy
time deposit
trade barrier
traditional economy
unemployment rate
vertical combination
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