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Michael Grahame "Mike" Ward (born 18 July 1942) is a Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand politician.

He was an MP for one term from 2002 to 2005.

He was co-leader of the Values Party (a predecessor to the modern Greens) from 1985 to 1988.

In 2006, Ward was an unsuccessful candidate for male co-leader of the Green Party, following the death of Rod Donald in 2005.

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context, or is easily converted to such a form.

The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

Any item or verifiable record that fulfills these functions can be considered as money.

The news media or news industry are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

These include print media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and more recently the Internet (online newspapers, news blogs, etc).

Profit or normal profit is a component of (implicit) costs and not a component of business profit at all.

It represents the opportunity cost, as the time that the owner spends running the firm could be spent on running a different firm.

The enterprise component of normal profit is thus the profit that a business owner considers necessary to make running the business worth his or her while, i.e., it is comparable to the next-best amount the entrepreneur could earn doing another job.

Particularly if enterprise is not included as a factor of production, it can also be viewed a return to capital for investors including the entrepreneur, equivalent to the return the capital owner could have expected (in a safe investment), plus compensation for risk.

In other words, the cost of normal profit varies both within and across industries; it is commensurate with the riskiness associated with each type of investment, per the risk-return spectrum.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.