What is margin?

President Vucic declared war on margins. From now on, no more lies and deceit, margins they fall to 20 percent and not a penny more than that, promises the president.

Margin comes to us through French margin, and there from Latin margo which means edge or boundary.

Margin is literally an edge, an edge. We know about the margins of a notebook or book, the whiteness of the page that makes it easier to read, and how to bind the book together. And notes can also be written there.

When larger gatherings are also used for bilateral meetings, politicians or diplomats are said to have seen each other on the sidelines of the summit.

We also know about marginal phenomena - they are rare, unusual, not the rule. Marginals are people from the edge of society, irrelevant characters.

And in the economy?

In many Indo-European languages, the word is predominantly used to describe a price difference. Let's say, the difference between the purchase price and the selling price, that is, the trading margin.

Or between total income and expenses, that's the profit margin.

If you will, it is the margin by which the price swells, so we pay more so that someone can make money.

The problem is when the edge is so thick that it is almost higher than the base price. No one would buy a book with such wide margins.