Monday, January 24, 2011
Post 25 (B) - Find the Gini Indexes for the nations of the world and react to what that says about America.
After looking at the Gini Index on various websites it seems to show that the Unites States hovers around 45 on a scale of 0 to 100. I think this is safe to say since many citizens want to believe that our country is equal, this should go for the sharing of wealth as well. We are not a country run by strict groups where all of our money goes to the government, like many African countries. Then again we are not like many European countries where wealth is sent to the lower levels. America is a little below the middle, giving a little more wealth to the less wealthy but still evenly balanced.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Post 25 (A) - Find one group of Americans that would love inflation and explain why.
A group of Americans that would love inflation would be debtors. Anyone in severe debt would love inflation since each dollar that they pay back would not be worth as much. Since the dollar amount is worth less the amount they are paying back is less than the amount they would pay without inflation. For example, inflation would help people with big car payments, people who have a mortgage, or even students paying back loans.
Post 24 - Create 4 scenarios for your life to describe the 4 types of unemployment. (future you)
1. Sturctural Unemployment - Since Wawa created a new machine that makes hoagies with a machine, they no longer needed me to make them, so I was put out of work due to structural unemployment.
2. Seasonal Unemployment - After working on a christmas tree farm, I was laid off since nobody has interest in buying a christmas tree after christmas.
3. Frictional Umeployment - While working at wawa, I plan to move to Delaware during the period of time before I start my new job at my new home would be considered frictional unemployment.
4. Cyclinical Unemployment - With the economic down turn less people had the money to come into wawa to buy over priced sandwiches in order to balance this problem, wawa needed to cut employees, me included.
2. Seasonal Unemployment - After working on a christmas tree farm, I was laid off since nobody has interest in buying a christmas tree after christmas.
3. Frictional Umeployment - While working at wawa, I plan to move to Delaware during the period of time before I start my new job at my new home would be considered frictional unemployment.
4. Cyclinical Unemployment - With the economic down turn less people had the money to come into wawa to buy over priced sandwiches in order to balance this problem, wawa needed to cut employees, me included.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Post 18 - Twitter Man!
Dear Jerry,
I would like to take the time to thank you for the site you have created that allows students like myself to have a short cut to more sites. This helps out a large handful of us, whether we realize it or not, to find websites that can help us better understand what we are learning in class, or experiencing in the real world. I do take alot away from my classes in school but the few things that are left in the shadows are brought to like with the information that can be found on your site. The site doesnt just give a few choices, but rather a large number that gives students the oppurtunity to search for something that best suites them. Although I have only used your site for my economics class, Im sure it could help me in the future with other classes as well. Keep up the good work.
Thanks again -Nick
I would like to take the time to thank you for the site you have created that allows students like myself to have a short cut to more sites. This helps out a large handful of us, whether we realize it or not, to find websites that can help us better understand what we are learning in class, or experiencing in the real world. I do take alot away from my classes in school but the few things that are left in the shadows are brought to like with the information that can be found on your site. The site doesnt just give a few choices, but rather a large number that gives students the oppurtunity to search for something that best suites them. Although I have only used your site for my economics class, Im sure it could help me in the future with other classes as well. Keep up the good work.
Thanks again -Nick
Post 22 - Make a list of 15 new facts you learned (5 from each quiz).
1. Unemployment can be branched out into multiple types.
2. Unemployment is the most publicised statistic.
3. Full employment only accounts for 95 percent
4. Population Study is run by Census Bureau
5. Inflation is an increase in the average price of products
6. Deflation is the opposite of inflation by decreasing the average price of goods
7. a "Shock" increases the price of products for many or all firms
8. Price index is used to measure price levels
9. Price index also calculates inflation rates
10. The worst degree of inflation is called "hyperinflation"
11. If the value of the dollar decreases, the people who suffer most are those on fixed income
12. Higher Rates = Less Spending
13. Poverty threshold is the lowest income level needed for basic living
14. Poverty thresholds are based of the price index
15. Increases in technology = decrease in lower-skilled workers
2. Unemployment is the most publicised statistic.
3. Full employment only accounts for 95 percent
4. Population Study is run by Census Bureau
5. Inflation is an increase in the average price of products
6. Deflation is the opposite of inflation by decreasing the average price of goods
7. a "Shock" increases the price of products for many or all firms
8. Price index is used to measure price levels
9. Price index also calculates inflation rates
10. The worst degree of inflation is called "hyperinflation"
11. If the value of the dollar decreases, the people who suffer most are those on fixed income
12. Higher Rates = Less Spending
13. Poverty threshold is the lowest income level needed for basic living
14. Poverty thresholds are based of the price index
15. Increases in technology = decrease in lower-skilled workers
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Post 21 - Use the terms on: Page 235 Q1; Page 240 Q1 and Page 246 Q1 and make a terms list for this unit.
National Income Accounting- Process used for tracking production, income, and consumption in a nations economy
Gross Domestic Product- Total value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given year
Output Expenditure Model- A method of computing the GDP by adding the total value of consumer and government spending
Personal Consumption Expenditure- Total spending by consumers for durable goods, nondurable goods, and services during a specified period of time
Gross Investment- Total value of private spending in the economy for capital assets
Nominal GDP- The value of a nations GDP at the current prices of the period being measured
Real GDP- The value of a nations GDP after it has been adjusted for inflation
Price Index- A set of statistics that allows economists to compare prices over time
Underground Economy- Illegal economic activities or unreported legal activities that are not accounted for in national income measures
Gross National Product- Total value of all final goods and services produced with factors of production owned by citizens of a different country
Business Cycle- A recurring pattern in economic activity that is characterized by alternating periods of expansion and contraction
Expansion- A period of the business cycle during which economic activity is increasing toward a peak
Peak-The point of the business cycle during which employment production and wages are at their highest
Contraction- A period in the business cycle during which business activity slows down and overall economic indicators decline
Recession- Substantial and general decline in over all business activity over a signifigant period of time
Depression- A prolonged and severe recession
Trough-The lowest point of the business cycle
Leading Indicators- Set of economic factors that anticipate the expansions and contractions of the business cycle from one month up to two years before similar changes in overall economic activity occur
Coincident Indicators- Set of economic factors that move up or down with the economy
Lagging Indicators- Set of economic factors that help economicts predict the duration of economic up or downturns
Real GDP Per Capita-The dollar value adjusted for inflation of all final goods and services produced per person in an economy in a given year
Labor Productivity- Measure of how much each worker produces in a given period of time
Productivity Growth- Increase in output per worker per hour worked
Capitol-to-labor ratio- Amount of capital resources available per worker
Capital Deepening- The increasing of capital resources at a faster rate than the increasing of the labor force
Gross Domestic Product- Total value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given year
Output Expenditure Model- A method of computing the GDP by adding the total value of consumer and government spending
Personal Consumption Expenditure- Total spending by consumers for durable goods, nondurable goods, and services during a specified period of time
Gross Investment- Total value of private spending in the economy for capital assets
Nominal GDP- The value of a nations GDP at the current prices of the period being measured
Real GDP- The value of a nations GDP after it has been adjusted for inflation
Price Index- A set of statistics that allows economists to compare prices over time
Underground Economy- Illegal economic activities or unreported legal activities that are not accounted for in national income measures
Gross National Product- Total value of all final goods and services produced with factors of production owned by citizens of a different country
Business Cycle- A recurring pattern in economic activity that is characterized by alternating periods of expansion and contraction
Expansion- A period of the business cycle during which economic activity is increasing toward a peak
Peak-The point of the business cycle during which employment production and wages are at their highest
Contraction- A period in the business cycle during which business activity slows down and overall economic indicators decline
Recession- Substantial and general decline in over all business activity over a signifigant period of time
Depression- A prolonged and severe recession
Trough-The lowest point of the business cycle
Leading Indicators- Set of economic factors that anticipate the expansions and contractions of the business cycle from one month up to two years before similar changes in overall economic activity occur
Coincident Indicators- Set of economic factors that move up or down with the economy
Lagging Indicators- Set of economic factors that help economicts predict the duration of economic up or downturns
Real GDP Per Capita-The dollar value adjusted for inflation of all final goods and services produced per person in an economy in a given year
Labor Productivity- Measure of how much each worker produces in a given period of time
Productivity Growth- Increase in output per worker per hour worked
Capitol-to-labor ratio- Amount of capital resources available per worker
Capital Deepening- The increasing of capital resources at a faster rate than the increasing of the labor force
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Post 17 - Last Post for Macro Economics
Weakness: recession always follows a peak
Strength: Allows room for expansion
Weakness: very steap recession, long while to expand
BEST BUSINESS CYCLE: GRAPH #3
Graph 3 represents the best business cycle to me based off the fact that everything is equal. The trough in an economy is no more or no less than that of its peak. Being able to keep an economy in such window would allow the economy to remain more stable. It is alot easier to deal with what you know is coming, rather than gambling on the future.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Post 15 - Find and react to a list of leading/coincident/lagging indicators. Pick the top 3 in each category.
Leading - These types of indicators signal future events. Think of how the amber traffic light indicates the coming of the red light. In the world of finance, leading indicators work the same way but are less accurate than the street light. Bond yields are thought to be a good leading indicator of the stock market because bond traders anticipate and speculate trends in the economy (even though they aren't always right). Lagging - A lagging indicator is one that follows an event. Back to our traffic light example: the amber light is a lagging indicator for the green light because amber trails green. The importance of a lagging indicator is its ability to confirm that a pattern is occurring or about to occur. Unemployment is one of the most popular lagging indicators. If the unemployment rate is rising, it indicates that the economy has been doing poorly. Coincident - These indicators occur at approximately the same time as the conditions they signify. In our traffic light example, the green light would be a coincidental indicator of the associated pedestrian walk signal. Rather than predicting future events, these types of indicators change at the same time as the economy or stock market. Personal income is a coincidental indicator for the economy: high personal income rates will coincide with a strong economy.
Top Indicators:
-Leading: Stock Market declining
-Lagging: Unemployment Rate
-Coincident: Gross Domestic Product
Top Indicators:
-Leading: Stock Market declining
-Lagging: Unemployment Rate
-Coincident: Gross Domestic Product
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Post 14 - Reaction to a youtube video – “My Humps” and the Business Cycle Rap Then watch this Qwiki Find a link to a better video or website for Business cycles. Was the video helpful or silly? Which source was more useful why?
The video "My humps" was a bad idea at first. I think we were more focused on a bunch of high school kids making a bad rap at first. But after we started to listen to the lyrics we could see that the students knew what they were talking about. After we got past the looks and actually listened the video was pretty helpful.
Post 13 - Practice quizzes! Explain the 10 things you learned or things that got "cleared up for you"
1. Economists track things using "National Income Accounting"
2. To calculate GDP economists use output-expenditure model
3. Indirect Taxes are included in final tax price
4. There is a seperate economy called the underground economy
5. A business cycle is just a market fluctuation
6. The great depression was the most severe contraction in the American Economy
7. War is considered an external factor
8. Economic Growth is essential to prosperity
9. US does not have to import lumber or coal, only oil
10. American productivity growth has slowed down since the 60's
2. To calculate GDP economists use output-expenditure model
3. Indirect Taxes are included in final tax price
4. There is a seperate economy called the underground economy
5. A business cycle is just a market fluctuation
6. The great depression was the most severe contraction in the American Economy
7. War is considered an external factor
8. Economic Growth is essential to prosperity
9. US does not have to import lumber or coal, only oil
10. American productivity growth has slowed down since the 60's
Monday, December 20, 2010
Post 12 - write a letter to the editor why the GDP is a faulty indicator – suggest other indicators (GNP, NNP etc)
To whom it may concern:
After researching the Gross Domestic Product, it seems that a few problems have come up. It seems that some certain areas used to calculate the GDP are not safe, or correct. Things such as divorce, natural disasters, and crime are all counted as economic gain? I dont believe this is a morally right way to calculate the GDP. Not only does the GDP promote these things but it also ignores the non-market economy of household and community. I believe if there was some way to switch these situations than we would be much better off.
After researching the Gross Domestic Product, it seems that a few problems have come up. It seems that some certain areas used to calculate the GDP are not safe, or correct. Things such as divorce, natural disasters, and crime are all counted as economic gain? I dont believe this is a morally right way to calculate the GDP. Not only does the GDP promote these things but it also ignores the non-market economy of household and community. I believe if there was some way to switch these situations than we would be much better off.
Post 11 - Using the 4x3technique. 3 rules and 4 ingredients create a recipe or math formula that explains how GDP is calculated!
Equation:
RULES:
Wealth distribution–GDP does not take disparity in incomes between the rich and poor into account.
Post 10 - React to reading: What do you think macroeconomics will be all about? What interests you about this topic? List three things you hope to learn!
Ive learned prior that macroeconomics has to do with business on a larger scale, much like how microeconomics has to do with business on a smaller scale. I think we will take a look at big business in the United States, as well as across the world. I hope to learn about some of these specific businesses, and how they function. I would also like to find out if they had started on a smaller scale than expanded. A neat thing would be to see how other nations economic well being is handled, I would like to know if they are similar to that of the United States, or completely different.
Post 9 - Tween Tribune 100 word essay
Technology has helped us in our lives in many ways. We now are able to produce products better and faster. Instead of companies having shortages of their products they can now easily produce their products to the demand of the people. Technology has also helped the expansion of companies because they can communicate with each other from anywhere in the country that the company is located, or to other countries as well. Companies can now receive information/reviews about their products, which could lead to a decision to increase production or lower it. This new technology has help companies become more successful everyday.
Post 8 - Malcolm Gladwell
1. Companies compete with one another by creating products for individual groups of people, rather than making one product for everyone to satisfy a wider range of needs.
2. If prices are close to one another, a customer will choose which product tastes better to them.
3. Oligopoly requires companies to compete with one another with something besides price.
2. If prices are close to one another, a customer will choose which product tastes better to them.
3. Oligopoly requires companies to compete with one another with something besides price.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Post 7 - Name the 4 varieties of monopoly and give a real or fake sample of each.
1. Natural Monopoly- Public utilities such as water service
2. Geographical Monopoly - Bait Shop Near water
3. Technology Monopoly - Wind Mills
4. Government Monopoly - Postal Service
2. Geographical Monopoly - Bait Shop Near water
3. Technology Monopoly - Wind Mills
4. Government Monopoly - Postal Service
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