price-support payments

  • 1price support — Synonyms and related words: TLC, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, autarky, bimetallism, bounty, bread, care, daily bread, depletion allowance, dole, economic self sufficiency, economic support, endowment, fair trade, fair… …

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  • 2Dairy Price Support Program — The Dairy Price Support Program is the United States federal program that maintains a minimum farm price for milk used in the manufacture of dairy products. USDA indirectly assures a minimum price for milk by purchasing any cheddar cheese, nonfat …

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  • 3support — Synonyms and related words: A frame, Maecenas, OK, TLC, abettor, abide, abide with, accept, acceptance, accession, accommodate, accredit, acquiescence, act a part, act out, admirer, advance, advocate, affirm, affirmation, afford, afford hope,… …

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  • 4Price scissors — The price scissors is an economic phenomenon when for a certain group or sector of productive population the overall valuation from their production for sale outside this group drops below the valuation of the demand of this group for goods… …

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  • 5United States Consumer Price Index — The U.S. Consumer Price Index is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which started the statistic in 1919, publishes the CPI on a monthly basis. The CPI is calculated by… …

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  • 6Milk Income Loss Contract Payments — Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Payments is the name given by USDA to the dairy farmer counter cyclical payments program, authorized by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107 171, Sec. 1502, 7 U.S.C. 7982). Under the program, dairy farmers nationwide are… …

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  • 7Mobile Payments in India — Mobile Payments is a new and alternate mode of payment using mobile phones. Instead of using traditional methods like cash, cheque, or credit cards, a customer can use a mobile phone to transfer money or to pay for goods and services. A customer… …

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  • 8Balance of payments — In economics, the balance of payments, (or BOP) measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries. It is used to summarize all international economic transactions for that country during a specific time period …

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  • 9deficiency payments scheme — noun a plan for support of the price of a produce (especially by government) …

  • 10Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …

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