Topic 1 Volcab Flashcards
The study of personal and family resources concert important in achieving financial success: involves how people spend, save, protect and invest their financial resources
Personal finance
Knowledge of facts, concepts, principles and technological tools are fundamental to being smart about money
Financial literacy
Means that you are accountable for your future financial well-being and that you strive to make wise personal financial decisions
Financial responsibility
Giving up one thing for another
Trade-off
Income not spent on current consumption
Savings
Assets purchased with the goal of providing additional income from the outset itself
Investments
Material well-being and peace of mind that individuals or groups earnestly desire and seek to attain, to maintain attained, to preserve or threatened and regain of lost
Standard of living
Achievement of financial aspirations that are desired, planned, or attempted as defined by the person who seeks it
Financial success
Comfortable feeling that her financial resources will be adequate to feel any need to have as well as most of your wants
Financial security
Experience you have when you were satisfied with your money matters, which is in part a result of practicing good financial behaviors
Financial happiness
Condition of increasing production business spending and consumption consumer spending in the economy and has increasing national income
Economic growth
Business cycles can be depicted as a wavelike pattern of rising following: phases of business cycle include expansion, peak, contraction, trough
Business cycle/economic cycle
Recurring period of decline in total output, income, employment, and trade usually lasting from six months to a year and Mark I widespread contractions and many sectors of economy
Recession
Time. When credit use shrinks in an economy instead of expanding as during normal economic times
Deleveraging
Occurs when the economy has a recession and then soon after emerging from her session with the short period of growth quickly falls back into recession
Double-dip recession
Any economic statistics such as unemployment rate GDP or inflation rate that suggests how well the economy is doing now and how well it might be doing in the future
Economic indicator
Nations broadest measure of economic health: reports how much economic activity has occurred within the US borders during a given period
Gross domestic product GDP
Statistics to change before the economy changes, that’s helping predict how the economy will do in the future such as stock market number of new building permits and consumer confidence index
Leading economic indicators
Economic indicator that moves in the same direction as the economy
Moves in the opposite direction of economy
Pro cyclic
Counter cyclic
Study and sustained rise in general price levels across sectors measured by changing cost overtime of market basket of goods and services that are typical household my purchase
Inflation
Composite index reported monthly by the conference board that suggests a future direction of economy
Index of leading economic indicators LEI
Broad sustained kind of prices of goods and services that is hard to stop once it takes hold, causing less consumer spending, or corporate profits, declining home values, rising unemployment, lower incomes
Deflation
Measure of goods and services that one’s income will buy
Purchasing power
Income measured in constant prices relative to some bass time period. It reflects the actual buying power money you have is measured in constant dollars
Real income
Also called money income: income that has not been adjusted for inflation and decreasing purchasing power
Nominal income
Brought a measure of changes in the prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households
Consumer price index CPI
Short-term rate at which depository institution one balances at the federal reserve two other depository institutions overnight
Federal funds rate
Price of Borrowing money
Interest
Opportunity cost of any decision is the value of the next best alternative that must be forgone
Opportunity cost
Extra satisfaction derived from gaining one more incremental unit of a product or service
Marginal utility
Additional cost of the more incremental unit of some item
Marginal cost
Tax rate at which your last dollar earned is text
Marginal tax rate