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How does the economy work?

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Supply and demand!!!!! For example: If you have a lot of something, let's say...Gameboys...and the demand for the Gameboys are low, (this means no one really wants them) then the price of the Gameboys will go down so that the stores can sell the products. Now let's look at the Nintendo Wiis. The supply is low, the demand is high. Therefore, the price will go up. Supply and Demand makes our economy go round.

Very true, and if we look at money as our basis for the economy, once boiled down to it's simplest form, that $20 bill in your wallet represents nothing more than the ability to do work. There can only be as much money in the economy as there are goods and/or services to back up said money. If there is not enough goods or services to back up the money, then the value of the money goes down. Remember those candy bars used to be just a nickel? Which means a five dollar bill today might buy me two gallons of gasoline today, but in three years it very well may just get me a single gallon. One of two things happened, we either printed more money, making my five dollars less valuable, or we printed no new money, and the demand for gasoline simply went up, causing the price to rise.

Remember, at the end of the day a dollar bill is just a piece of paper with pretty pictures on it. The only value it has is that which we in our own minds give it.

So basically, it's the supply and demand.

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Some people provide other people with money to set up a business. The people who provided the money are called shareholders. The people who took the money are called management. The money is called capital. The managers use the capital to hire workers, rent space, and purchase machinery and office furniture. Then they start selling their product. Their product might be cars, Hamburgers, computer programing, Plumbing repair services, or any number of things. If there is money left over after the bills are paid, that is called profits. The company pays income tax. Then the company takes what is left and declares a dividend and gives the profits back to the shareholders.

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In a market system the interaction of supply and demand for each good determines what and how much to produce.

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