This is an IOU - it's generally considered a low risk way to invest money and earn interest.
What is a bond?
100
The dollar value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders within a given year.
What is gross domestic product or GDP?
100
These people have been looking for jobs without luck for several weeks.
What are discouraged workers?
100
The persistent decline in dollar value
What is deflation?
100
The state budget has a requirement that the federal government does not.
What is to be balanced?
200
This is a higher risk way to invest money, but it comes with partial ownership potential.
What is a stock?
200
The GDP measures me.
What is productivity?
200
In the 1930s, many Americans found themselves without work or money through no fault of their own.
What is cyclical unemployment?
200
Prices rise on Chik Fil A chicken sandwiches.
What is cost push inflation?
200
This document gave Congress the power to tax.
What is the US Constitution?
300
Another lane needs to be added to I-35, but Dallas is broke. They use this method to raise money.
What is a bond?
300
These are partial goods or ingredients to a final product. They do not count in GDP.
What are intermediate goods?
300
Amelia graduates from college with a degree in microbiology and a teaching certificate. When she goes home to Lubbock, there are no AP Biology teaching spots open. She decides to wait until there are.
What is frictional unemployment?
300
SMU becomes the best place to get a degree in history.
What is demand pull inflation?
300
Each income bracket pays the same percentage of taxes.
What is proportional taxation?
400
You would consult this person when you want to see your portfolio or have a prospectus drawn up.
What is a stock broker?
400
This is the lowest point of an economic contraction, when GDP stops falling.
What is a trough?
400
Sophia needs a job quickly. Abercrombie and Fitch hires her in November, but she is without a job in January. How can this be?
What is seasonal unemployment?
400
A Social Security pension remains the same rate, no matter what is going on in the world.
What is fixed income?
400
Paid for by taxes, these entitlement programs are a part of what kind of federal spending.
What is mandatory spending?
500
This kind of market is not a very good one. Hint: ROAAR.
What is a bear market?
500
A combination of high unemployment and high inflation.
What is stagflation?
500
Dr. House has just graduated from medical school with a certification in infectious diseases, but he has a problem. Vaccines have cured all the infectious diseases in the world and his skills don't fit the job market.
What is structural unemployment?
500
The government uses these programs to provide for retirement, medical care, and unemployment. You need all three names.
What is Social Security, Medicaid, and Unemployment Insurance?
500
A new museum is being proposed to make Dallas an even better city. Problem is...there's not enough money yet.