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The 2.8-percentage-point increase since that low represents a net increase of about seven million adults without health insurance." [ 46 ] The US Census Bureau reported that 28.5 million people (8.8%) did not have health insurance in 2017, [ 47 ] down from 49.9 million (16.3%) in 2010.
Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where ...
Performance bond. A performance bond, also known as a contract bond, is a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor. The term is also used to denote a collateral deposit of good faith money, intended to secure a futures contract, commonly known as margin .
Bertrand competition is a model of competition used in economics, named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900). It describes interactions among firms (sellers) that set prices and their customers (buyers) that choose quantities at the prices set. The model was formulated in 1883 by Bertrand in a review of Antoine Augustin Cournot ...
Ramsey problem. The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs. Under ...
August 16, 2024 at 5:16 AM. (Reuters) -Texas Instruments will receive as much as $1.6 billion in direct funding from the U.S. Commerce Department to support the construction of three new domestic ...
August 15, 2024 at 3:50 AM. The annual inflation rate has cooled, new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed on Wednesday. The July consumer-price index shows an annual inflation ...
Bearing (mechanical) A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts. The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors ...