Introduction
Assessing Economic Performance
Macroeconomics
Commerce in the News
Video Games
100

What are the three leakages in the circular flow of income?

Savings, Taxation, Imports

100

Which quantifiable metric do economists often use when trying to assess standard of living in a country?

GDP per capita

100

Which organisation monitors the Australian economy and implements monetary policy?

The RBA

100

Which is the most valuable Australian Bank

CBA

100

What is the name of the block-stacking puzzle game created in the Soviet Union in 1984?

Tetris

200

At which point in the business/economic cycle is inflation at its highest?

Boom

200
Identify two ways Australia redistributes income

Welfare/Transfer Payments, Progressive Taxes, Provision of services, Compulsory Super

200

A Government taxes $40m from it's people and provides $45m in providing services and transfer payments. Is this expansionary or contractionary. Justify your answer. 

Budget Defecit of $5m. G>T. G is an injection. T is a leakage. Therefore economic activity will increase. Expansionary

200

How did the RBA change monetary policy this week?

Decrease cash rate 0.25% or 25 basis points

200

Who sang the song "Video Games" in 2011

Lana Del Ray

300

When is an economy in a technical recession?

2 consecutive quarters of negative economic growth

300

According to your text the four "Indicators of the performance of the Australian Economy" are; Standard of living, Income Distribution, __________ __________ and _________  __________

Economic Growth, Environmental Sustainabiilty

300

_______ _______is when the government changes its spending or taxes to influence the economy.

Fiscal Policy
300

Australian Soldier Ben Roberts Smith after losing his case in the federal court has signalled he will take his case to the high court. What did he accuse 9 entertainment of?

Defemation


300

Which gaming company created Sonic?

Sega

400

Name the four Economic Resources also known as the Factors of Production

Land, Labour, Capital, Enterprise

400

A form of capitalism, ______ ________, refers to no interference with income distribution and markets free or regulatory inteference from a central authority. 

laissez-faire

400

A decrease in the cash rate is likely to have what impact on consumption? Justify your answer. 

Increase. Mortgage repayments decrease, increasing funds available for consumption.
400

Paramount & Skydance recently merged creating a nee company the Skydance Corporation valued at 8.4bn USD. In the past month they extended the contract of their most popular show, paying the creators 1.5bn

South Park

400

What is the colour associated with the very first pokemon game?

Green. In Japan. 

Later they were rebranded as Red/Blue in the West. 

500

What is the formula to calculate Aggregate Demand in an economy?

AD= C + I + G + (X-M)

500

Which economic indicator measures income inequality?

The Gini Coefficient

500

How do you ascertain the Balance of Trade? When is it in surplus?

Exports - Imports. (X>M)

500

BTC broke a new all time high yesterday. What was it? to the nearest 1,000 USD.

124000

500

Which video game console has sold the most units in history?

Playstation 2 (160m) although the nintendo swith is not far behind with 154m