Red/Orange Flashcards
Types of Resources
Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship
Effects of Unexpected Inflation: Helped
Benefits borrowers
Effects of Unexpected Inflation: Hurt
Ppl w/ Fixed nominal incomes, those who save in fixed-value accounts, and lenders
Frictional Unemployment
workers searching for jobs, in between jobs, or waiting to take jobs
Structural Unemployment
some skills become not needed as much or even obsolete
Cyclical Unemployment
workers laid off due to recession
Full Employment/Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU)
when there is no cyclical unemployment
Budget Surplus
G < T (tax revenue is greater than government spending)
Budget Deficit
G > T (government spending is greater than tax revenues)
M1
currency (coins & paper money) and checkable deposits
M2
M1 plus near-monies (highly liquid financial assets that don’t directly function as a medium of exchange but can be quickly converted into M1 without risk of financial loss
M3
M2 plus large time deposits
Stagflation
Increasing inflation and rising unemployment (often caused by a negative supply shock)