this ain't MACRO
The Aggregation Station
Gone with the Trade Wind
Who Let the Fed Out?
ESAconomy
100

You sacrifice something else to get something.

What is opportunity cost?

100

GDP adjusted for inflation is known as this.

What is Real GDP?

100

You grow pineapples really well. I knit sweaters like a pro. Instead of both of us doing both, we trade and both win.

What is Comparative Advantage?

100

This is the rate that the FED charges commercial banks.

What is the discount rate?

100

She is the President of the ESA.

Who is Thi?

200

This does not provoke a shift in the demand curve of apples.

What is the price of apples?

200

This is the term for inflation combined with stagnant economic growth and high unemployment.

What is Stagflation? 

200

This is the current baseline tariff imposed on all US imports.

What is 10%?

200

This Tippie Econ professor has worked at the Dallas FED for many years.

Who is Professor Anil Kumar?

200

India Cafe made an appearance at this ESA event.

What is the student-faculty dinner?
300

I am super happy when I eat my first slice of pizza; I am happy when I eat my second slice; I am kinda full when I eat my third; I don't really wanna eat my fourth; I'm full

What is diminishing marginal utility?

300

Classical economists believe that wages and prices are this in the long run.

What is flexible? 

300

Importing a MAX. of 12 barrels of oil.

What is a quota?

300

The Fed uses this phrase when it's carefully adjusting interest rates to avoid harming the economy.

What is soft landing?

300

This person is the honorable ESA's QR Code Guardian.

Who is Jerome Powell?

400

Firms should produce where marginal cost equals this.

What is marginal revenue?

400

Natural unemployment includes these two types.

What are Frictional and Structural unemployment?

400

To protect a growing domestic industry like tech, a country might impose tariffs or give subsidies under this economic rationale.

What is infant industry protection?

400

The Federal Reserve was created in this year to stabilize the banking system.

What is 1913? 

400

This is the year ESA was founded.

What is 2021?
500

You increase the price of the toilet paper that you are selling, and as a result, your revenue increases. The demand for toilet paper must have this property.

What is inelastic demand?

500

This curve in Keynesian theory is horizontal at low levels of output.

What is the Short-Run Aggregate Supply (SRAS) curve?

500

This economic concept explains why resource-rich countries sometimes experience deindustrialization and a manufacturing decline due to large foreign currency inflows.

What is Dutch disease?

500

During the 2008 crisis, the Fed helped rescue the American International Group insurance giant to prevent systemic collapse under this justification.

What is "too big to fail"?

500

This is the number of posts on the ESA Instagram.

What is 17?