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What are the phases
of the business cycle?
C:
Recovery, Peak, Recession, Trough
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A:
C:
Recovery, Peak, Recession,
Recovery, Peak, Recession, Trough
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B:
Peak, Valley, Rise, Depression
D:
Valley, Rise, Trough
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What happens to
employment during a
recession?
A: Decreases
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A: Decreases
B: Increases
C: Nothing
D: Collapses
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What could cause a
recession?
Low spending, lay offs, and natural disasters
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A: low prices, lay offs
C:
Natural disasters and high
employment
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B: Low spending
D:
Low spending, lay offs, and natural disasters
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Which one of these
doesn’t increase during a
recovery cycle?
A: Unemployment
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A: Unemployment
C: Government Spending
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B: Inflation
D: Consumer Spending
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What would
production be like
during a peak?
C: Increased
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A: Decreased
C: Increased
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B: No change
D: Rapidly Changing
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the $1,000
Milestone!
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Consumer spending +
investment spending +
government spending + net
export + spending equals?
B: Aggregate Demand
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A: Monetary Policy
B: Aggregate Demand
C: Nominal GDP
D: Aggregate Supply
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New employment
generates income, which
can generate?
B: New Spending
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A: Large Savings Accounts
B: New Spending
C: New policies
D: Nothing
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If interest rates are at the
highest, which part of the
business cycle would we
be in?
D: Peak
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A: Slump
B: Depression
C: Recovery
D: Peak
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Decreased spending
is directly related to
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C: Rising Prices
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A: Unemployment
B: No money
C: Rising Prices
D: Recession
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Layoffs, and declining
employment leads to ?
D: Lower income Levels
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A: Higher income levels
B: Nothing
C: More Government Spending
D: Lower income Levels
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the $32,000
Milestone!
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What is the cyclical
fluctuation in the level
of economic activity
called?
A: The Business Cycle
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A: The Business Cycle
C: Fiscal Policy
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B: Cyclical Fluctuation
D: Inflation
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Why are economists
interested in
business cycles?
B: How the economy is Influenced…
and Answer D
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A: To measure the economy
C: To know when to implement
policies
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B: How the economy is Influenced
D:
Because it’s their job
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If the lowest point of real
GDP is reduced, and
there are high levels of
unemployment, what
business phase is it?
C: Trough
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A: Peak
B: Gap
C: Trough
D: None of the above
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“Inventory investment
instability major cause of
total investment fluctuations”
This belongs to which
theory?
D:
Volatile Investment Theory
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A: Investment Theory
B:
Business Investment Theory
C:
D:
Volatile Investment Theory
Stable Investment Theory
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Joseph Schumpeter, an
Austrian economist at
Harvard, came up with
which theory?
A: Innovations Theory
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A: Innovations Theory
B: Schumpeter Theory
C: The Monetary Theory
D:
The Multiplier-Accelerator Theory
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