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The Lobos Lagoon (or Laguna de Lobos), at 15 kilometres from Lobos and 115 kilometres from the City of Buenos Aires is the main turism lure of the area. It has an area of 8 km² making it the right place for fishing activities. Due to its surrounding which is rich in vegetation it is possible to appreciate a wealth of birds. However, the fishing fauna allows amateur fishers to enjoy an unforgettable stay. Since 1988 every year the Sport Fishing Festival is carried out. It takes place in December, such Competenc ...

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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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Cheques have been in decline for many years, both for point of sale transactions (for which credit cards and debit cards are increasingly preferred) and for third party payments (e.g. bill payments), where the decline has been accelerated by the emergence of telephone banking and online banking. Being paper-based, cheques are costly for banks to process in comparison to electronic payments, so banks in many countries now discourage the use of cheques, either by charging for cheques or by maki ...

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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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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 membersh ...

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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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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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Because (in principle) money is anything that can be used in settlement of a debt, there are varying measures of money supply. The narrowest (ie. more restrictive) measures count only those forms of money held for immediate transactions Broader measures include money held as a store of value. Different measures of money have different technical definitions. The most common measures are named M0, M1, M2, and M3 (from narrow to broadly defined). In the United States they are as follows, as defined by the Federal Reserve: See also:

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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In some areas in the US, sections of roads and highways (usually about a mile) can be "adopted" by a company or group. The sponsor either sends volunteers or hires people to clean the section of roadway. Also, imprisoned convicts are used in some areas to clean roadway trash as part of their repaying their debt to society. A bottle floating in a canal Litter in the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland An aluminiu ...

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One type of litter specifically identified by governments in both hemispheres is called "Election Litter". In all cases it is defined as the erection of signs on public property and on private property without permission by political campaigns. In some countries, Election Litter is a form of direct propoganda wherin images of the current dictator are posted boldly on public buildings. In Western cultures, however, the littering is conducted by private persons who often operate at night so as not to get caught, as the penalties can be quite severe. Electioneering Spells Litter in Baltimore Cra ...

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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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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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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-Coin-Standard Criticisms of Fractional-Reserve Banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government Controls on Fractional-Reserve Banking

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Money supply - Monetary exchange equation. Money supply is important because it is directly linked to inflation by the "monetary exchange equation": where: velocity = the number of times per year that money changes hands (if it is a number it is always simply GDP / money supply) real GDP = nominal Gross Domestic Product / GDP deflator GDP deflator = measure of inflation. Money supply may be less than or gr ...

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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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The supply of money outside of coins minted by the Mint can ONLY increase if the private banks issue more by loaning into circulation through Fractional Reserve Bank Lending Practices. Subsequently paper notes are increased ONLY as they are printed by the BEP on behalf of the Federal Reserve Fractional Banking System and are swapped at par value by the Federal Reserve Bank with Private Banks for their already issued electronic credits, which are then expunged (some believe retained) from the system by the Federal Reserve Bank. Thus, these printed money tokens (notes) merely replace already ...

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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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Canada is the country with the highest per capita use of credit unions, with over a third of the population enrolled in one. They are concentrated in Quebec, where they are known as caisses populaires (people's bank), and on the Western prairies. In Canada, trade association memberships for credit unions is required. Canada has a 100% affiliation of its credit unions in their trade associations, referred to as credit union leagues. The United States has nearly 85 million credit union members, however less than 1 in 7 people who ...

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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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Using the term metaphorically, an e-shopping cart (electronic shopping cart) is data, maintained by software, which allows customers shopping on a website to accept product orders for multiple products from the website. This software automatically calculates and totals orders for customers and indicates the total price including shipping and handling (also known as "post and packing" in the UK). Some setup must be done in the HTML code of the website, and the shopping cart software must be installed on the server which hosts th ...

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Shopping cart, Shopping cart - History, Shopping cart - Alternative Uses of Shopping cart, Shopping cart - Sources

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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-Coin-Standard Criticisms of Fractional-Reserve Banking, Fractional-reserve banking - Government Controls on Fractional-Reserve Banking

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One of the principal jobs of central banks (such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank) is to keep money supply growth in line with real GDP growth. Central banks do this primarily by setting the "federal funds rate" through open market operations. A very common criticism of this policy, originating with the creators of GDP as a measure, is that "real GDP growth" is in fact meaningless, and since GDP can grow for many reasons including manmade disasters and crises, is not correlated with any known m ...

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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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When a central bank is "easing", it triggers an increase in money supply by purchasing government securities on the open market thus increasing available funds for private banks to loan through fractional reserve banking (the issue of new money through loans) and thus grows the money supply. When the central bank is "tightening", it slows the process of private bank issue by selling securities on the open market and pulling money (that could be loaned) out of the private banking sector. It reduces or increases the supply of short term govern ...

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Many critics of irredeemable fiat money see fractional-reserve banking as a threat to the gold-coin 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 their face value in terms of gold coin, will be a cheaper way to discharge debts, driving out gold coin. However, other critics of irrede ...

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