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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Litter - Littering

Litter is unsightly and expensive to clean up, so the act of littering has been made a fineable offense by statute in many places. For example, in the U.S. state of California, the punishment for first-time littering starts at a $100 (USD) fine and eight hours of picking up roadside litter. A defendant's third offense and all subsequent offenses are punished with a minimum penalty of a $750 fine and 24 hours of litter cleanup (per offense). See Cal. Veh. Code § 42001.7 [1]. Such penalties are often p ...

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Litter, Litter - Littering, Litter - Election littering, Litter - Blame for litter, Litter - Effects on the environment, Litter - Costs of litter, Litter - Cleaning

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Scottish Unionist Party - Scottish Unionist Party Unionist Party 1912-1965

The "Scottish Unionist Party", or "Unionist Party" as it was known within Scotland, was the main Tory or Conservative organisation in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. Describing them as 'Tories' overall as opposed to 'Conservatives' is a consequence of the Scottish Unionists eschewing the use of the name 'Conservative' [1] until 1965. Even today the official website of the Scottish Conservative and Unioni ...

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Scottish Unionist Party, Scottish Unionist Party - Scottish Unionist Party Unionist Party 1912-1965, Scottish Unionist Party - Origins, Scottish Unionist Party - Ethos and appeal, Scottish Unionist Party - Electoral record and the 1955 election, Scottish Unionist Party - Merger with Conservatives, Scottish Unionist Party - Consequences of merger, Scottish Unionist Party - The Thatcher-Major years, Scottish Unionist Party - Devolution and pre-1965 considerations, Scottish Unionist Party - External links, Scottish Unionist Party - Scottish Unionist Party SUP 1980s-present, Scottish Unionist Party - External links

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - New Orleans Mint - History

New Orleans Mint - Antebellum period 1835-1861. The city of New Orleans, Louisiana has been an important commercial center practically since it was founded along the banks of the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico, in 1718. This fact was reinforced when the United States Federal Government established a branch mint there on March 3, 1835, along with two other Southern branch mints at Charlotte, North Carolina and Dahlonega, Georgia. Such action was deemed necessary for many reasons. For one, in 18 ...

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New Orleans Mint, New Orleans Mint - History, New Orleans Mint - Antebellum period 1835-1861, New Orleans Mint - Civil War and recommissioning 1861-79, New Orleans Mint - A second chance closure and transformation 1879-present, New Orleans Mint - Coinage produced, New Orleans Mint - Silver coins, New Orleans Mint - Gold coins

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Lobos - History

Main article: History of Lobos The history of Lobos began in 1740 when a Jesuit mission led by Reverend Father Kalkner, who surveyed the centre and South of the Province of Buenos Aires and thus picked up some geographic information of the area. In 1772 thanks to Falkner's notes a map of the region was printed in London. The map contained the inscription Laguna de Lobos (Lagoon of Wolves, in Spanish) ...

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Lobos, Lobos - Background, Lobos - History, Lobos - Jesuit Missions, Lobos - Nuestra Señora Del Carmen Church, Lobos - Politics, Lobos - Economy, Lobos - Tourism, Lobos - Lobos Lagoon, Lobos - Geography of Lobos, Lobos - Maps:

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking

Central banks are government owned and/or sponsored banks that issue notes and typically receive special privileges in the form of exemption from restrictions or taxes on note issue, or whose notes are made legal tender by government fiat (hence the term fiat currency -- the notes are current (legal tender) by government fiat (artificial law). Central banks also operate as fractional-reserve banks, and the reserve ratio policies of the central bank influence specie flows and credit conditions, making the control of fractional-reserve ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Sveriges Riksbank - History

The Riksbank began its operations in 1668, its antecedent being Stockholms Banco (also known as the Bank of Palmstruch), which was founded by Johan Palmstruch in 1656. Although the bank was private, it was the King who chose its management: in a letter to Palmstruch he gave permission to its operations according to stated regulations. However, Stockholms Banco, the world's oldest note-issuing bank collapsed as a result of the issuing of too many notes without the necessary collateral. Palmstruch, who was considered respo ...

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Sveriges Riksbank, Sveriges Riksbank - History, Sveriges Riksbank - The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-Reserve Banking and Central Banking

Central Banks are government owned and/or sponsored banks that issue notes and typically receive special privileges in the form of exemption from restrictions or taxes on note issue, or whose notes are made legal tender by government fiat (hence the term fiat currency -- the notes are current (legal tender) by government fiat (artificial law). Central banks also operate as fractional-reserve banks, and the reserve ratio policies of the central bank influence specie flows and credit conditions, making the control of fractional-reserve ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-Reserve Banking and Central Banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of Fractional-Reserve Banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money Creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro Gold-Coin-Standard Criticisms of Fractional-Reserve Banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government Controls on Fractional-Reserve Banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Cheque - Usage

Parties to regular cheques generally include a maker, the depositor writing a cheque; a drawee, the financial institution where the cheque can be presented for payment; and a payee, the entity to whom the maker issues the cheque. Ultimately there is also at least one indorsee which would typically be the financial institution servicing the payee's account, or in some circumstances may be a third party to whom the pay ...

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Cheque, Cheque - History, Cheque - Parts of a cheque, Cheque - Types of cheques, Cheque - Usage, Cheque - The decline of cheques

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Credit union - Credit unions in the United States

St. Mary's Bank Credit Union holds the distinction as the first credit union established in the United States and is based in Manchester, NH. St. Mary's was founded by French-speaking immigrants to Manchester from the Maritime Provinces of Canada in 1908. Massachusetts was the first state to enact a credit union law. Department store magnate Edward Filene is credited as being the father of credit unions in the United States. Early credit unions were viewed as the “poor man’s bank” because they would extend credit to people who o ...

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Credit union, Credit union - Membership restrictions, Credit union - Corporate credit unions, Credit union - Credit unions in the United States, Credit union - North American statistics

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Credit union - Membership restrictions

Governmental regulatory agencies require that credit unions restrict their membership to defined segments of the population, such as people who live, work, worship, or attend school in a well-defined geographic area, employees of specific companies or trades, members of specific non-profit groups (alumni associations, conservation or other advocacy organizations, lodges, churches, or the like) or a particular occupational group (teachers, doctors, etc.) In the U.S., this is referred to as a credit union's field of membership, ...

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Credit union, Credit union - Membership restrictions, Credit union - Corporate credit unions, Credit union - Credit unions in the United States, Credit union - North American statistics

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

Banking has been subject to generally a greater extent of government regulation and controls than other forms of business, and banking law has in many countries been the subject of extensive political debate, along side of the mono-metallic gold standard versus the bi-metallic gold or silver standard debate. Government controls on banking related to fractional-reserve banking have generally been to impose restrictive requirements on note issue and deposit taking on the one hand, and to provide relief from bankruptcy and creditor claim ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking

Many critics of irredeemable fiat currency see fractional-reserve banking as a threat to the gold standard, through fractional-reserve banking leading to exhaustion of reserves, prompting governments to make the notes of government-favoured banks legal tender, even though the issuer is in default. If such defaulted bank notes are made legal tender by government fiat, as they trade at a discount to ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Risk

Fractional-reserve banking allows for the possibility of a bank run in which the demand depositors and note holders collectively attempt to withdraw more money than the bank has in reserves, causing the bank to default. The bank then would be liquidated and the creditors of the bank would suffer a loss if the proceeds from the bank's assets were insufficient. Although an initial analysis of a bank run and default points to the bank's inability to liquidate or sell assets (i.e. because the fraction of assets not held in the form of liq ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Lobos - Background

Located 100 km from Buenos Aires, Lobos is currently a fertile agricultural area known mainly because of the dairy activity and dairy-related products. Lobos Administrative Area is bordered by Navarro to the northwest; General Las Heras to the north; Cañuelas to the northeast; San Miguel del Monte to the east; Roque Pérez to the south and 25 de Mayo to the west. The administrative area is as web divided into 7 quarters: Arévalo, Carboni, Elvira, Empalme Lobos, Las C ...

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Lobos, Lobos - Background, Lobos - History, Lobos - Jesuit Missions, Lobos - Nuestra Señora Del Carmen Church, Lobos - Politics, Lobos - Economy, Lobos - Tourism, Lobos - Lobos Lagoon, Lobos - Geography of Lobos, Lobos - Maps:

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation

When banks issue notes and accept demand deposits, the bank's liabilities can be used as a means of payment to buy goods and services, for example by tendering bank notes and by writing cheques on demand deposit accounts. Bank liabilities therefore act as a substitute to legal tender, and allows banks to create the inverse of their reserve ratio in legal tender substitutes. For example, if the bank's reserve ratio is 10%, it can create 10 times its reserves of legal tender in notes and demand deposits that are used as money, and for this reason the ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Lobos - Politics

To be completed. See also: Mayors of Lobos ...

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Lobos, Lobos - Background, Lobos - History, Lobos - Jesuit Missions, Lobos - Nuestra Señora Del Carmen Church, Lobos - Politics, Lobos - Economy, Lobos - Tourism, Lobos - Lobos Lagoon, Lobos - Geography of Lobos, Lobos - Maps:

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Money supply - Scope

Because (in principle) money is anything that can be used in settlement of a debt, there are varying measures of money supply. The narrowest (i.e., most restrictive) measures count only those forms of money available for immediate transactions, while broader measures include money held as a store of value. The most common measures are named M0 (narrowest), M1, M2, and M3. In the United States they are defined by the Federal Reserve as follows: M0: The total of all physical currency, plus accounts at the central bank which ...

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Money supply, Money supply - Introduction, Money supply - Scope, Money supply - Link with inflation, Money supply - Monetary exchange equation, Money supply - Percentage, Money supply - Money Supply and Cash, Money supply - The Central Bank, Money supply - The balance sheets, Money supply - Bank reserves at Central Bank, Money supply - Arguments and criticism, Money supply - United States monetary base, Money supply - United States money supply, Money supply - Footnote

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Cheque - Parts of a cheque

A cheque shall contain: place of issue cheque number account number MICR date of issue payee amount of currency signature of the drawer A cheque is generally valid for six months after the date of issue unless otherwise indicated, but this varies depending on where the cheque is drawn. In Australia, for example, it is fifteen months. Legal amount (amount in words) is also h ...

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Cheque, Cheque - History, Cheque - Parts of a cheque, Cheque - Types of cheques, Cheque - Usage, Cheque - The decline of cheques

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Cheque - History

During the first century A.D., banks in the Persia (Iran) and other territories in Persian empire under Sassanid dynasty issued letters of credit known as Sakks. They are considered the basis for the modern cheque. The cheque had its origins in the ancient banking system, in which bankers would issue orders at the request of their customers, to pay money to identified payees. Such an order was referred to as a bill of exchange. The use of bills of exchange facilitated trade by eliminating the need for merchants to carry ...

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Cheque, Cheque - History, Cheque - Parts of a cheque, Cheque - Types of cheques, Cheque - Usage, Cheque - The decline of cheques

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Lotteria - Recycling

Lotteria has been at the forefront of a push by the Korean food service industry and citizens to implement recycling programs and other environmentally friendly policies beyond government mandates. Most beverages and desserts eaten in the restaurant come in reusable glass or plastic. Disposable paper cups come with a 10 cent deposit which is returned to the customer when he/she brings back the cup for recycling. Customers are encouraged to bring their own bags by charging them between a nickel and 10 cents for a new bag. The g ...

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Lotteria, Lotteria - History, Lotteria - Menu, Lotteria - Japan, Lotteria - South Korea, Lotteria - Recycling, Lotteria - Lotteria around the world

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Lobos - Geography of Lobos

Lobos has a surface of 1,725 km2 and is bordered to the south by the Río Salado which usually becomes the source of recurrent flooding. Lobos city is as well limited by Salgado Channel which is coming from Río Salado. The southeastern area of the city is bordered by Muñiz Channel. Salgado Channel splits the city from the countryside areas. Lobos boasts as well of 6 lagoons: Salada; Laguna Salada Chica; Laguna Culú Culú; Laguna de Colis; Laguna Seca, and the most important of all: ...

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Lobos, Lobos - Background, Lobos - History, Lobos - Jesuit Missions, Lobos - Nuestra Señora Del Carmen Church, Lobos - Politics, Lobos - Economy, Lobos - Tourism, Lobos - Lobos Lagoon, Lobos - Geography of Lobos, Lobos - Maps:

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deposit: Encyclopedia II - Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background

At one time, people deposited their precious metal coins at goldsmiths, receiving in turn a note for their deposit. As these notes began to be used directly in trading, participants no longer needed to redeem their notes to perform the trade. Thus an early form of paper money was born. As the notes were used directly for trade, the goldsmiths realized that people would never redeem all their notes at the same time. Thus goldsmiths saw the opportunity to issue new bank notes and lend them at interest—a process that altered their role ...

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Fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Fractional-reserve banking and central banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Historical background, Fractional-reserve banking - Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Risk, Fractional-reserve banking - Money creation, Fractional-reserve banking - Pro-gold standard criticisms of fractional-reserve banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government controls on fractional-reserve banking

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