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Review. What is the fundamental economic problem? What are the fundamental questions in economics? What is opportunity cost? What are the four factors of production? What is a synonym for factors of production? What is a corporation? What two types of costs make up total cost?
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Review • What is the fundamental economic problem? • What are the fundamental questions in economics? • What is opportunity cost? • What are the four factors of production? • What is a synonym for factors of production? • What is a corporation? • What two types of costs make up total cost? • What is the goal of all firms? • What is the equation for profit? • Define GDP.
Review • What are the keys to capitalism? • Law of Demand: A decrease in ______________would cause an increase in quantity demanded? • What type of business organization has limited liability? • What is entrepreneurship? • Minimum wage is an example of a price _________. This type of government interference in the market causes a _____________. • Market clearing price is another term for ___________.
Inflation Prices just keep onRising
What is it????????????? • Inflationis when prices increase over time • Deflationis when prices decrease over time • 1-2% is acceptable • Creeping, Galloping, Hyper are unacceptable • Inflation is measured by Price Indexes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0KMC1Ticc&feature=related
Price Indexes • CPI-The consumer price index. Measures the change in prices of consumer goods in various categories. • PPI- The producer price index. Measures the change in prices of capital goods and raw materials. • GDP Deflator- The most comprehensive price index a combination of the CPI and the PPI. Measures the change in the price of over 40,000 products. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnCYtx3frRA
Price indexes • Measure the price change in a market basket of goods. • What is in the CPI? • FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals, snacks) • HOUSING (rent of primary residence, owners' equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture) • APPAREL (men's shirts and sweaters, women's dresses, jewelry) • TRANSPORTATION (new vehicles, airline fares, gasoline, motor vehicle insurance) • MEDICAL CARE (prescription drugs and medical supplies, physicians' services, eyeglasses and eye care, hospital services) • RECREATION (televisions, toys, pets and pet products, sports equipment, admissions); • EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (college tuition, postage, telephone services, computer software and accessories); • OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES (tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services, funeral expenses).
Inflation Summary Vid • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmOMp8gycMA&feature=related
Review • What is the term for rising prices? • Explain the three price indexes and how they measure inflation. • EOCT REVIEW: • What is the law of supply? • What is the law of demand? • Give me one inelastic good… why? • Give me one elastic good… why? • What is the profit maximizing point of output?
(CY/BY) x 100 Example
Calculate the Price index • Using year 1 as the base year, what is CPI in years 1, 2, and 3? • What was the rate of inflation over the base year in years 2 and 3?
Was Babe Ruth’s salary good compared to today’s players? • Babe’s 1931 salary - $81,000 • CPI 1931 – 15.2 • CPI 2005 – 195 Amount in today’s $’s = (P level today/P level in year T) * 81,000
Review • What is the term for rising prices over time? • What do we call falling prices over time? • CPI, PPI or GDP Deflator? • Measures the prices of inputs such as raw materials and capital equipment • Measures goods and services included in GDP • Measures the prices of goods purchased by households • If CPI in 2012 is 130 compared to the base year, what is the rate of inflation? • If CPI in 2012 is 90 compared to the base year, what happened to prices in the economy? • What is the difference between real and nominal GDP?
What causes inflation?? • Demand-Pull Inflation – buy more than the economy can produce
What causes inflation?? • Cost-Push Inflation – rising costs EXAMPLES????
Other causes • Demand pull • Cost push – what is an example? • Government Deficits • Increase in money supply http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a863JOfrbS8&feature=related
2012 CPI = 5 1913 CPI = 100 If you took $1 from 1913 and flew in a time machine to 2012, how much would that $1 be worth? CPI 2012/CPI 1913 * $1= 5/100= .05 * $1= $.05
What would be an action by a country’s government to help them get out of debt? Who would this upset? Is this a form of taxation?
Inflation….Good???? Bad???? Helped by Inflation Hurt by Inflation -Banks/lenders with fixed rate loans - People living on fixed incomes • -Borrowers with fixed interest payments • -Government (borrower) in debt
What is a Deficit? What do you think the U.S. deficit is? A deficit is when spending is greater than revenue (taxes)during a period of one year.
What is a Debt? Debt is the accumulation of deficits http://www.usdebtclock.org/
What does a deficit and debt look like?
$1 Trillion DOUBLE STACKED Projected 2010 deficit is $1.7 trillion
$1 trillion of $1 stacked one on top of each other reaches 68,000 miles into space or 1/3 the distance to the moon.
To put things in perspective, current estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at somewhere between 100 and 400 billion.