History Final

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Why do we need government?
To organize things and control sinful man's actions. Not to take good things away but to take bad things away..
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Why should we obey rulers?
Christians had Nero as their ruler, jesus paid taxes. we are called to submit to our authorities or incur God's judgement. Rulers cannot harm our soul so we don't need to fear them. But when the ruling authority contradicts God's authority it goes away. Daniel did not submit to authority but submitted to punishment.
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federal code
all laws congress has passed
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current inflation rate vs typical rate
4.93% vs 1-2%
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austrian school of economics
free market oriented approach, suspicious of government in market, opposite of keynesian
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keynesian school
opposite of austrian, the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand strongly influences economic output and inflation, government should interfere and control market prices
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public works and what they require
bridges etc (what government does for people), needs more taxes
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Demographic
visual display of people and their characteristics
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x industry
any industry that needs saving
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world population
we are leveling out, then will shrink, workforce will get smaller
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subsidy
give direct payments to producer to lower price or offset price for the purchaser to help purchasers want to get the product. a payment from government to private entities, usually to ensure firms stay in business and protect jobs.
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why does the government lower rent/cap rent?
to build more aparetments where demand is high and so ordinary people will buy apartments.
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what does rent cap result in?
fewer apartments and more run down apartments.
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minimum wage
lowest hourly amount workers can get (7.25)
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How are wages determined?
smallest amount that will still draw people in
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What does higher minimum wage mean?
higher unemployment because you have to lay off workers and can't afford more
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economics
(deals in scarcity) the discipline of understanding how we make decisions about the scarcity of goods
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Types of economies
1. traditional 2. command 3. market 4. underground (trucks come make uncomfy)
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Traditional economy
everyone does the same thing. A traditional economy is an economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs help shape the goods and services the economy produces, as well as the rule and manner of their distribution.
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command economy
one personovernment runs the economy. an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
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market economy
buying and selling is the planning. an economic system in which production and prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
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underground economy
black market
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What are most markets/ america?
Command and market
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division of labor
the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialize (specialization)
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utility
usefulness of an object, getting more is not helpful
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margin
aquisision of one more unit of something, selling more is more helpful
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law of diminishing margin return
more not as helpful, another unit is basically useless, At a certain point, employing an additional factor of production causes a relatively smaller increase in output.
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opportunity cost
the opportunity vs the the cost (thing you give up to do the thing you want to do)
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sunk cost
money that has been spent that cannot be regained
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supply and demand
an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good, or other traded item such as labor or liquid financial assets, will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded (at the current price) will equal the quantity supplied (at the current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium for price and quantity transacted.
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complimentary goods
things often bought together, such as pb+j
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substitute goods
goods that are easily swapped for other goods
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law of demand
when price is lower people want more, and when people want less the price goes up.
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Demand graph
Price | Quantity
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Supply graph
Price |_/ Quantity
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Supply
How much of a particular good that is availiable now to buy (if you make a lot of money you can make a lot of things)
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Law of Supply
When there is more buying more is made, when there is less buying less is made
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What is the point where supply and demand cross
equilibrium price/quantity
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Price |DemandxSupply_ Quantity identify points
low-people want more than is supplied at the price high-there is more supply than people want
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Composition
People who make up the demand curve
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What are things that cause supply and demand lines to shift
income, natural disasters, inflation, strikes, supplies skyrocket price, change in production cost, government regulation, technology, wages
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income
everything you earn
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wage
things you can earn from an hourly job (for example)
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Price controls
ceiling and floor, how high or low something can be charged
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ceiling problems
less supply because more can't be bought (you run out of supply because the price is too low and it gets bought. makes things run out faster)
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floor problems
trying to save something causes less supply (you can't make as much because the price is too high)
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things that shift the demand curve for labor
machines, high turnover (people leaving)
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interest
the price of the use of money
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loan interest amount
3-5%
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How is interest decided
the likelyhood of getting paid back
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stock
part ownership in a company, goal is to sell to get more money than you had
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capital
means by which a company makes things (resources, plants), all the things a company owns
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bond
loaning money to the person supplying the bond
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How does the federal reserve board get financed
buying government bonds, tries to take money out of circulation
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Rate of change
used to understand price returns (rate of return on an investment) and identify momentum in trends. The rate of how quickly something changes
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volital
changes from week to week
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elastic
determines shape of curve, if the price is too much people won't buy because they don't need it
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inelastic
when you buy something regardless of price because you need it
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price elasticity formula
percent change of quantity over percent change of price
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elastic formula
percent change of quantity is greater than the percent change of price
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neutral formula
percent change of quantity equals the percent change of price
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inelastic formula
percent change of quantity is less than the percent change of price
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Marginal utility
usefullness of buying another of the same item
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utility
usefullness of an item to you
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diminishing marginal utility
the more you have the less you want and the less valuable it is
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Microeconomics
Financial and labor markets, economics of a single market, one market studied
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macroeconomics
Looking at economics at a large nationwide scale, all the markets of our country, all markets in an economy studied
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fiscal policy
government regulated money movement through taxes and spending to moniter economy, lowers productivity of peaks, lower the busts and booms, the manner by which the government spends money and gains money (taxes) by looking at the current economy (spending money during a depression), taxing during a boom to use during a depression
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monitary policy
controlling the economy through creation and reduction of money, results in inflation thus causing more depression
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bonds
buy from government and they'll pay you back, loan to government, not risky
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framework
aggregate (everything together) supply/demand
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goals of macroeconomics through fiscal and monetary policy
economic growth, low unemployment, low inflation
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inflation
when money loses value
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Gross Domestic Product
Total number of things (goods and services) made in a year (an estimate)
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Net
some things are taken away
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Gross
nothing taken away
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Demand side
Consumption, investment, government exports, imports (negative against GDP) (cows in exile implode)
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Supply Side
Two types of products (goods), drable (reused) and non durable (not reused), services, structures (buildings), change in inventory (preslie sells street instagram)
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Why do we need GDP
to see when depressions are coming and to make decisions based on that (chronological comparisons)
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Buisness cycle
Boom (peak), recession, depression (bust), recovery
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Real vs Nominal pricing (dollars)
adjusting for inflation vs unadjusted numbers
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Boom/peak
low unemployment and high, rising inflation
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Bust
high unemployment and low inflation
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What does GDP not include, and what should this warn us for when comparing GDPs?
debts, so even if one country has a higher GDP, it might not be richer because of debts. also does not include population and therefore GDP per person
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Productivity
how much product comes out of each worker's work
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What does the government use in attempt to fix the market?
Fiscal and monetary policy
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Keynesian economics
Government intervention during depressions (attempts to flatten the curve), uses monetary and fiscal policy, stimulus checks, and making money out of nothing
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Neoclassical economics
Do nothing during depressions and let it work itself out
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stimulus checks
taking from tax payers and giving to people to spend (just moves money around, no gain)
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What did FDR use to fix the great depression?
fiscal policy
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Panic
name for depressions before "depression"
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Prime lending rate
small number of customers and government lending to banks, the rate the FED (government) charges to banks when they give them money, 2% to encourage them to borrow lots
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FED
Federal reserve board, monitors financial system risks and engages at home and abroad to help ensure the system supports a healthy economy for U.S. households, communities, and businesses.
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Government giving bonds is a __
loan, they loan money and people pay back a little more
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Percentage of the value of your property
property tax
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Estate tax
everything you own taxed when you die, everything is taxed again
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capital gain tax
tax on your gain in stocks
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tax deductions
things that don't get taxed out of your income
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tax credits
credit for paying taxes although you didn't (ex. single poor mother)
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tax exemptions
amount of money subtracted from income because you are married, have kids, etc.
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taxable income
tax percent bigger the bigger your income is
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AGI
adjusted gross income, not deductions or exemptions, everything else you make
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tax refund
the extra money you give for taxes gets returned
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audit
look at some tax returns and ask for proof
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