He is considered to be the "Father of Modern Economics" and believed that profits and prices would act as an "invisible hand"
Who is Adam Smith
What is used to measure inflation?
What is the CPI (Consumer Price Index)
This term means that supply and demand are equal.
What is Equilibrium
This is period of economic decline which lasts for at least two consecutive quarters
What is a recession
This is an economy where production, investment, prices and income are determined by the central government.
What is COMMAND ECONOMY
what is scarcity
This is the central bank of the US, which was created in 1913 after a series of financial panics.
What is the Federal Reserve
This is portable power and acts as both a good and a medium of exchange.
What is MONEY!
The combination of booms and recessions (or the flow of economic activity) is called the:
What is the Business Cycle
Name a command economy (past or present)
What is:
E. Germany, USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, Libya, Iran, Belarus, Myanmar, Laos, Turkmenistan
This is another word for financial assets or the value of assets.
What is capital
This type of inflation occurs when a good (like oil) becomes scarce.
What is "Supply Shock Inflation"
This is how much you have to pay to use someone else's money (or what the bank gives you for keeping your $ there)
What is INTEREST
The US experienced a bubble in THESE prices in 2006... and then they crashed...
What are HOUSING prices.
Give an example of how people in East Germany struggled when they transitioned from a command to a market economy?
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When a person increases consumption of a product, while keeping consumption of other products constant, there is a decline in the satisfaction that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product.
What is this concept called?
What is the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
This type of inflation happens when a large number of people all want a certain product.
What is "Demand Pull Inflation"
How much money (percentage of deposits) are banks required to keep on hand?
What is 3%
The first recorded bubble happened during the Dutch Golden Age (1600s), when WHAT commodity lost its value?
What are TULIPS
Name THREE negative aspects of living in a command economy
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This chart represents:
What is The Law of Demand
(Law Of Demand states that as the price of a good or service increases, consumer demand for the good or service will decrease)
This is the term that's used when prices/wages have been adjusted for inflation.
What are "Real Prices"
This is the value of the next highest valued alternative use of that resource (ie the best alternative that you're sacrificing)
What is Opportunity Cost.
What is "Great Recession"
What historic and symbolic event marked the end of East Germany's command economy?
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall.