Wayne Newton
Isaac Newton
Fig Newtons
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100
This is when it makes sense for a government to spend money on a "public good."
What is when (a) for an individual the cost of a good outweighs its benefit but (b) for a group the benefits outweigh the cost?
100

This is the current U-3 unemployment rate.

What is 3.5%

100

This program helps poor people with their medical bills.

What is Medicaid?

100

This is an economic side effect of a good or service the generates benefits or costs to someone other than the person deciding how much to produce or consume.

What is an externality?

100

This term refers to the total of all final goods and services produced in a country.

What is gross domestic product?

200

This is what the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides.

What is cash to states to help move people off welfare and into the workplace?

200

This program provides money to retired people, disabled people, and widows and children of retired or disabled people.

What is Social Security?

200

This part of the U.S. government was created to provide protections to workers.

What is OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?

200

This person was, without question, the greatest Supreme Court Chief Justice ever.

What is "Why is like my teacher like so obsessed with like John Marshall?"

200

这就是盐瓶发生的事情。

What is I think Sunshine ate it?

300
This is the term used when the free market does not distribute resources efficiently.
What is a market failure?
300

This explains why Isaac Newton had so much time to invent calculus, etc.

What is he died a virgin?

300

This is the right that allows a government to take your property as long as the gov't gives you "just" compensation.

What is eminent domain?

300

As of 2017, the richest 8 people on Earth collectively had as much wealth as this many people. 

What is 50% of the planet?

300

This is the term used to refer to a gov't license that gives the inventor of a new product the exclusive right to produce and sell it.

What is a patent?

400

These are 3 (of the 7) basic principles of the free enterprise system.

What are (1) the profit motive, (2) open opportunity, (3) legal equality, (4) private property rights, (5) freedom of contract, (6) competition, and (7) voluntary exchanges?

400

This is the name given to the protection of a work of art, like a novel.

What is a copyright?

400

This day commemorates National Fig Newton Day.

What is January 16th?

400

This is someone who gets the benefit of a good or service but does not pay for it.

What is a free rider?

400

这就是为什么Jello吃起来很有趣。

What is because it wiggles?

500
This movie featured Wayne Newton's stirring rendition of "Danke Schoen."
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
500

These are 2 ways in which the Constitution protects private property.

What are (1) the 5th Amendment "due process" clause, (2) the 14th Amendment DP clause, (3) the protection against interference with contracts, and (4) the protection of patents and trademarks?

500

These are goods and services provided by the gov't for free or at greatly reduced prices.

What are in-kind benefits?

500

These are two groups of people counted as unemployed in the U-6 but not the U-3.

What are those working part-time who want to work full-time and people who've looked for work in the past 12 months but not in the past 4 weeks?

500

This refers to a period of macroeconomic expansion followed by one of contraction.

What is a business cycle?