Post 23: WANTED! Unemployment: wanted dead or alive.

Unemployment has been stealing jobs and money leaving countless of people homeless. It has been suspected that there have been multiple Unemployments involved in this crime include: Frictional Unemployment, Structural Unemployment, and Seasonal Unemployment. Unemployment affect the economy because there will be less products being produced which can create economic issues.

Post 22: 15 facts from 3 quizzes

Quiz 1
1. The census bureau conducts a monthly study called the Current Population Survey.
2. Unemployment rate is the most closely watched labor force statistic.
3. Workers are underemployed if they have jobs beneath their skill level.
4. About 95% of the workforce is fully employed.
5. Unemployment that results from a change in technology is called structural unemployment.

Quiz 2
1. Aggregate supply is the total amount of goods and services produced throughout the economy.
2. A Supply Shock is an event that increases the cost of production for all or many firms.
3. To construct the consumer price index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics selects a sample of commonly purchased consumer items, called the Market Basket
4. The worst degree of inflation is called hyperinflation
5.  High interest rates lead to less consumer spending.

Quiz 3
1. The poverty threshold is the lowest income level that a family needs to maintain a basic standard of living.
2. The poverty rate is the percentage of individuals or families that are living in poverty.
3. The data used to plot a Lorenz Curve can also be used to compute the gini Index.
4. Rapid changes in technology have led to a drop in demand for lower-skilled workers.
5. One suggestion for improving income equality is raising the minimum wage.

Post 21: Vocab

Terms List:

National income accounting - The process of tracking production, income, and consumption in a nation's economy.
Gross domestic product - Total dollar value of all final goods and servies produced within a country during one calender year.
output-expenditure model - A way to calculate GDP C + I + G + (X - M) = GDP.
personal consumption expenditure -  consumer purchases.
gross investment - total value of all capital goods produced in a given nation during one year as well as changes in the dollar value of business inventories.
nominal GDP - Current GDP.
real GDP - GDP adjusted for price changes.
Price index - set of statistics that allow economists to compare prices over time.
underground economy - illegal activities and unreported legal activities.
gross national product - measures the total dollar value of all final output produced with factors of production owned by residents of a country during one year.
business cycle - fluctuations in a market system's economic activity.
expansion - a period of economic growth.
peak - a high point of expansion, where the economy is at its strongest and most prosperous point.
contraction - a recession.
recession - decline in real GDP for two or more consecutive quarters.
depression - prolonged and severe recessions.
trough - occurs when demand, production, and unemployment reach their lowest levels.
leading indicators - anticipate the direction in which the economy is headed.
coincident indicators -  change as the economy moves from one phase of the business cycle to another and tell economists that an upturn or downturn in the economy has occurred.
lagging indicators - change months after an upturn or downturn in the economy has begun.
real GDP per capita - increase in the real dollar value of all final goods or services that are produced per person for a specified period of time.
labor productivity - measure of how much each worker produces in a given period of time.
productivity growth - an increase in the output of each worker per hour of work.
capital to labor ratio -  the amount of capital stock available per worker.
capital deepening - an increase in the amount of capital goods available per worker - results.

Post 20: Quiz Corrections

Reviewing Facts
1. a; h; National income accounting is the process of tracking production, income, and consumption in a nation's economy (229)
2. b; a; Nominal GDP is the current GDP (232)
7. f; g; Coincident indicators change as the economy moves from one phase to another. (240)
8. g; f; Lagging indicators change months after an upturn of downturn in the economy has occurred (240)

Understanding Ideas
2: d; b; GDP does not include products such as used cars or secondhand clothing...goods were accounted in the year they were produced (230)
4. d; a; Gathering the necessary data is a slow and time consuming process. (233)

Matching
1. b; d; National income accounting is the process of tracking production, income, and consumption in a nation's economy (229)
2. i; b; Nominal GDP is the current GDP (232)
4. t; f; GNP measures the total dollar value of all final output produced with factors of production owned by residents of a country during one year (234)
12. c; s; Capital Deepening - an increase in the amount of capital goods available per worker (245)

Post 19: GDP Pyramid

Post 18: Twitter Man!

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Post 17: Business Cycle Graphs

Graph 1: The graph uses great economic vocabulary words and uses colors to enhance the visual. The graph also has a labeled X and Y axis to further describe the business cycle. The only thing the graph lacks is a title.

Graph 2: This graph shows only one hump and therefore not expressing that the business cycle will repeat itself. It uses some mediocre vocabulary words and it's very bland being only black and white. Although the graph has a labeled X and Y axis, it fails to have a title.

Graph 3: The graph has a title and a labeled Y axis but not labeled X axis. It is very visually appealing however the graph only shows one hump.

I believe that graph 1 is the most successful created graph of them all because it shows the continuous nature of the business cycle. The graph also shows a "growth trend" line to show that although the economy will have a fluctuation between peak and trough, the economy will slowly increase over time. The colors and design of the graph makes it very visually appealing.