government policy and the business cycle. word splash economic growth stability full employment ppi...
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Government Policy and The Business Cycle
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Word Splash• economic growth• stability• full employment• PPI• inflation• unemployment• GDP per capita• CPI• housing starts• retail sales
• Write Word Splash on one side of the index card
• On the back side of the index card, write a definition (in your own words, not Webster’s or dictionary.com’s) and an illustration for each word.
• Make sure your group agrees with your definition before writing it on the card • I will not be giving extra cards
for “messing up”
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Questions• Which of the words are considered goals of economic policy? • (economic growth, stability, full employment)
• What are the economic indicators that measure each goal?• GDP for economic growth, CPI for stability, and unemployment
rate for full employment. Other indicators are housing starts and retail sales
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Business Cycle Notes• Different Powerpoint, follow along on handout
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US GDP• If you see a drop in GDP, what most likely is happening to
employment?
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Public Sector• Go station to station in your group, taking notes based on
what you read• Once you have gone through all the groups, you will write a
short paragraph (one per group) discussing how the role of government in the economy• Is the government involved a lot? Has that involvement helped?,
etc
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Taxes• You’ll be put into groups; each group gets the same set of
Taxes cards• Get a piece of butcher paper (big sticky note) and create a
three column chart. Your columns should be labeled Local, State, and National
• Research your different taxes and put them in the correct category. Underneath your tax, write a short description of what it is.
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Unemployment• Different Powerpoint
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GDP and Unemployment• Look at the years:• 1914-1918• 1929-1936• 1941-1945• 1980-1989• 2010
• Write a paragraph discussing the relationship you see between GDP and unemployment and what the government did to fix it• Example: When GDP is high, unemployment is ____. When
unemployment was high the government did ____.