Banking and Savings
Life
Supply and Demand
The Economy
Basic Economics
100

Your money grows faster when you earn this type of interest.

What is Compound Interest

100

These are the monies you need to move into most rentals. 

What are first, last and security?

100

The desire to own something and the ability to pay for it. 

What is demand?

100

This is the monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period.

What is GDP or Gross Domestic Product?

100

This permanent condition exists because of limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants.

What is scarcity?

200

This is the rate that the Fed charges banks to borrow money.

What is the discount rate?

200

A plan on for how money will be spent each month

What is a budget?

200

As prices increase, quantity demanded decreases, as prices decrease, quantity demanded increases. 

What is the Law of Demand?

200

A general rise in prices and falling purchasing value of money.

What is inflation?

200

Land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship.

What are the factors of production?

300

This is the minimum amount of reserves that must be held by a commercial bank as determined by the Federal Reserve Bank. 

What is the reserve requirement?

300

A numerical rating of how likely you are to pay off your debts

What is a credit score?

300

The measure of how consumers react to a change in price

What is elasticity?

300
Inflation hits people living on this type of income the hardest. 

What is a fixed income?

300

Cost or benefit that affects someone other than the producer who did not choose to incur the cost. 

What is an externality?

400

This is a government backed investment that is considered one of the safest investments.  

What are savings bonds?

400

These are three federal tax deductions taken from your paycheck. 

What are federal income tax, social security and medicare?

400

This type of good has a high elasticity of demand.  

What are luxury items?

400

A decline in gross domestic product (GDP) for two or more consecutive quarters. 

What is a recession?

400

Costs that do not vary with the quantity of output produced.

Fixed costs. 

500

This outlawed restraints and monopolies that hindered trade

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

500

This is what happens to wages when there is a shortage of workers. 

What is increase?

500

The total amount of goods or services demanded at any given point in time. 

What is quantity demanded?

500

The phase of the business cycle when the economy moves from a trough to a peak. 

What is an expansion?

500

This type of goods have a high elasticity of demand. 

What are luxury items?

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