Vocab Words
Functions of Money
Amount of Money
Commodity Money
Interest Rates
100

 “Generally accepted” in exchange for goods and services.

What is Money? 

100

Usable for buying and selling goods and services.  

What is Medium Of Exchange?

100

....occurs due to the money supply growing too quickly.  

What is inflation?

100

Two widely used types of money through time: 

What is Gold and Silver?

100

Compensation is also called:

What is Intrest?

200

Use of another country’s currency in private transactions.  

What is Currency Substitution? 

200

Used for measuring the relative worth of a wide variety of goods.

What is monetary units?

200

The economy could slide into recession if there is too little....?

What is Money?

200

The narrowest measurement of money supply

What is M1?

200

Interest earned on the principal plus interest. 

What is Compound Intrest?

300

Assets accepted for repayment of debt to the government as well as private transactions.

What is Legal Tender?

300

Enables people to transfer purchasing power from the present to the future.

What is Store of value?

300

Money that has some other use other than being a medium of exchange

What is Commodity Money?

300

Consist of all of M1 but is a  broader measurement of the money supply

What is M2?

300

If you prefer current consumption to future consumption:

What is High Time Preferance?

400

The situation when market participants use another countries currency as money.    

What is Dollarization? 

400

Money can lose it's ..... due to inflation. 

What is Store of value function? 

400

What has functioned as money over time

What is cigarettes? 

400

Used to estimate how much or how little is in a money supply.

What is Money Aggregates? 

400

If you are indifferent between consuming now or in future you have:

What is Low Time Preference?

500

Another countries currency is legal tender but the country also issues its own currency. 



What is Official Semi Dollarization?

500

We gauge the value of goods in....?

What is dollars?

500

For any asset to function as money it must:

What is be durable, be broadly demanded, be portable? 

500

Different Types of Money aggregates:

What is M1 and M2?
500

The value of money at some point in time in the future.

What is Future Value?

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