Expansion
Contraction
Peak/Trough
Money/The Economy
Unemployment
100
What is the phase of a business cycle that occurs after a trough and before a peak?
What is Expansion
100

What is the top example of an extreme contraction [1929]

What is The Great Depression?

100
Define trough.
What is the end of a period of declining business activity and the transition to expansion.
100

When everyone who wants a job has a job.

What is full employment?

100

Unemployment that occurs in a contractionary period.

What is Cyclical unemploymen?

200
Another name for expansion.
What is economic recovery?
200

This marks the beginning of a recession in the business cycle

What is Peak?

200

All of these are part of GDP formula except...?

A. Consumption Spending

B. Government Spending

C. Net Exports (exports-imports)

D. Net Imports (imports-exports)

E. Business Investment


D. Net Imports 

200

I am just tired of looking for work, there are no jobs out there.

What is a discouraged worker?

200

unemployment that occurs because of lack of skills to fill open jobs.

What is structural unemployment?

300

The Highest point the economy reaches?

What is a peak?

300

What happens when the GDP turns negative?

What is a contraction?

300

The amount of people being hired during a peak.

What is little or none?

300

The most liquid form of currency is...?

Money

300

What happens to the unemployment rate during a trough?

:( Only a few people have jobs

400

Right before depression or our lowest point in the cycle?

What is a trough?

400

A contraction that lasts longer than 6 month.

What is a recession?

400

Which of the following is most likely included in GDP

A. Matt gives his secondhand (used) bicycle to his brother

B.Sal paints his own bicycle

C.Ali buys a new bicycle

D.Daniel bikes to school every day


C. Ali buys a new bycycle 

400
Economic growth occurs when
What is a sustained increase in GDP.
400

Unemployment that happens naturally due to firing and quitting.

What is frictional?

500

This occurs during an expansion.

What is when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates and buys back bonds in the open market to add money to the financial system?

[consumer confidence is high, large investments by business, large purchases, more savings, etc]

500

Recession causes which of these Unemployments?

Cyclical 

500

The Federal Reserve does what?

"The Fed" are in charge of interest rates coining and printing money. 

500

Which of these is Standard of Value?

A teenager buying a prom dress

Comparing prices of 2 laptops

A man saving for retirement

Comparing prices of laptops. For Standard of value, The item must last over time without spoiling or decaying (unlike perishable goods like milk 

500

When the economy is at full employment, this is the rate of unemployment still present...

What is natural rate of unemployment?

4-6%