Expansion
Contraction
Peak/Trough
The Economy
Unemployment
100
What is the phase of a business cycle that occurs after a trough and before a peak?
What is Expansion
100

What is the top example of an extreme contraction [1929]

What is The Great Depression?

100
Define trough.
What is the end of a period of declining business activity and the transition to expansion.
100

When everyone who wants a job has a job.

What is full employment?

100

Unemployment that occurs in a contractionary period.

What is Cyclical unemploymen?

200
Another name for expansion.
What is economic recovery?
200

This marks the beginning of a recession in the business cycle

What is Peak?

200

An indicator of a peak beginning

What is when companies start to report flat revenues? [other answers also acceptable.]

200

I am just tired of looking for work, there are no jobs out there.

What is a discouraged worker?

200

unemployment that occurs because of lack of skills to fill open jobs.

What is structural unemployment?

300

The point where an expansion ceases to exist.

What is a peak?

300

What happens when the GDP turns negative?

What is a contraction?

300

The amount of people being hired during a peak.

What is little or none?

300

I have a job, but I really want and am qualified for a better job.

What is underemployed?

300

What happens to the unemployment rate during a trough?

What is it bottoms out?

400

The point where an expansion begins immediately after.

What is a trough?

400

A contraction that lasts longer than 6 month.

What is a recession?

400

Businesses are doing this at a peak.

What is no longer hiring, slowing production...?

400
Economic growth occurs when
What is a sustained increase in GDP.
400

Unemployment that happens naturally due to firing and quitting.

What is frictional?

500

This occurs during an expansion.

What is when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates and buys back bonds in the open market to add money to the financial system?

[consumer confidence is high, large investments by business, large purchases, more savings, etc]

500

When a contraction lasts longer than a year.

What is a depression?

500

I am located here compared to the trend line.

What is above?

500
What is the biggest factor that causes a depression?
What is consumer confidence
500

When the economy is at full employment, this is the rate of unemployment still present...

What is natural rate of unemployment?

4-6%