Fiscal/Monetary Policy
Unemployment
Taxation
Federal Budget
Economic Booms and Depressions
100

What is the name of the central bank in the USA that regulates the monetary system?

The Federal Reserve

100

What defines someone as being unemployed in the census?

People who have not worked, or had a job during the reference week, and who were actively looking for work in the last 4 weeks.

100

The kind of tax that takes a larger percentage of income from high-income groups than from low-income groups

Progressive Tax

100

what is the name of the 12 month financial planning period that may or may not coincide with the calendar year?

Fiscal Year

100

what was the Name of the Economic depression in 1929?

The Great Depression

200

The expansion or contraction of the money supply in order to influence the cost and the availability of credit is?

Monetary policy

200

What kind of unemployment occurs seasonally?

Seasonal unemployment 

200

The kind of tax that takes the same percentage of income from all income groups.

Proportional

200

who is the last person that signs off on the Federal budget

The President

200

When the Economic boom that followed the great depression

1982 to 1997

300

who came up with monetary policy?

Milton Friedman

300

T or F, if you contribute to a family business without pay you are considered unemployed  

True

300

A tax that takes a larger percentage of income from low-income groups than from high-income groups

Regressive Tax

300

a negative balance that results when expenditures exceed revenues in the Federal Budget 

Budget Deficit 

300
What were the roaring 20's

A period of great economic growth in the 1920'S

400

The use of taxes and government spending to affect the economy

Fiscal Policy

400

How many different types of unemployment are there?

5

400

The tax when food is taken from someone

Fanum tax

400

when expenditures are less than revenues in the Federal Budget 

Budget Surplus

400

What is an economic depression 

a period in time in which the economy gets worse and declines

500

who came up with fiscal policy?

John Maynard Keynes


500

On average, what percent of Americans are unemployed?

about 4%

500
Where did taxes originate from ?

A pharaoh in egypt 5000 years ago

500

when was the Federal Budget introduced 

July, 1974

500
what causes an economic depression 

stock market crash, inflation, unemployment, etc