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The actual economic temperature is defined as the effective monetary cost per irreversibly processed bit in a given economic system. The introduced definitions are particularly relevant for high-frequency trading environments. The Clausius formulation of the Second Law is reformulated for economic systems as the statement that money cannot spontaneously flow from a colder economic subsystem to a hotter one. Economic analogues of Carnot and Szilard engines are analyzed. The Carath\u00e9odory formulation of the Second Law is reformulated as follows: in every neighborhood of any equilibrium economic state there exist states that cannot be reached by processes that do not expend money or information. An optimal-power Curzon\u2013Ahlborn economic engine is discussed. Illustrative examples of the introduced economic temperature are provided. Finally, a redefinition of economic entropy based on information processing is proposed. 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