ECON 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Credit Union, Loanable Funds, Real Interest Rate

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Physical capital: the tools, machines that are used to produce goods. Inventories of raw materials, semi-finished goods and components. Financial capital: the funds that firms use to buy physical capital. Capital stock increases when net investment is positive. Wealth: value of all the things people own. Saving: the amount of income not paid in taxes or spent saving increases wealth. ~ businesses obtain a short term loans: bond markets. Bonds issued by firms or government are traded in the bond market: stock markets. ~ where shares of stock of corporations are traded. Financial institutions: banks, trust and loan companies, credit unions and caisses populaires, pension funds and insurance companies. Trading in financial markets determines price and yields on financial assets. Funds that finance investment: household saving, government budget surplus, borrowing from the rest of the world. When m > x , we borrow from the rest of the world to finance our investment.

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