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AP Econ in the News
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Apr 22 2008, 7:47 AM EDT |
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Change: discusses some negative aspects brough forth by globalization. India's rupees have grown by 15% against the dollar in the past year. The root cause of
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The Economic Basis for Trade
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Apr 18 2008, 11:17 PM EDT |
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Change:skilled labor (Japan)Land Intensive Goods: coffee, wheat, wool, and meat (Brazil)Capital Intensive Goods: automobiles, agricultual equipment, machinerey, and chemicals * The distributions, technology, and product distinctiveness can change. As changes occur, the relative efficiency with which a nation can produce specific goods will also change.
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The Case for Protection
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Apr 18 2008, 11:08 PM EDT |
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Change:(1) Imports may have eliminated many jobs in the competed industry, but it creates new jobs that complements the trading process, such as jobs unloading ships and selling imported products. Thus, import restrictions may not necessarily increase the volume of employment rather than simply altering its compostition. (2) Importing
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Trade Barriers
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Apr 18 2008, 10:57 PM EDT |
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Change:Nontariff Barrier: a method of restricting imports by implementing specific safety and quality standards or lengthy and unnecessary red tape.Voluntary Export Restriction: Trade barrier that limits quantity of imports agreed by foreign firms to prevent FURTHER barriers to their product imports.Economic Impact of Tariffs:Net Costs of Protection:
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AP Econ in the News - Macro Unit IV and V: Inflation, Unemployment, and Economic Growth
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Apr 10 2008, 10:28 AM EDT |
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Change:In this article from Forbes Magazine, Oxford Analytica examines the similarities of the current economy to the economy in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
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The Phillips Curve: Unemployment / Inflation relationship
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Apr 5 2008, 7:56 AM EDT |
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Change:Input prices is a determinant of AS, therefore when input prices (wages) decrease, AS will shift to the right OPEC etc. loses monopoly power ASA shiftscomponent backof tolaissez-faire economics, let the righteconomy self-correct, yet meanwhile the economy suffer from a lot of unemployment. AS
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Applying the Extended AD/AS Model
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Apr 5 2008, 12:08 AM EDT |
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Change:loss of output. A trade-off between recession and inflation. Recession Recession caused by decreases in AD Assumption: prices and wages are flexible downwarddownward]The gist of what the U.S is experiencing: recession caused by decrease in spending. Economist recommend active monetary or fiscal policy to fight recessions
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From Short-run to Long-run Aggregate Supply
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Apr 4 2008, 11:59 PM EDT |
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Change:way: wages down, aggregate supply curve shifts right, restore full employment output.Real output will stay the same regardless of specific price level.Long-run equilibrium in the AD-AS modelLong run equilibrium occurs at the intersection of the aggregate demand
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Macro Unit 3 AP Economics in the News:
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Mar 9 2008, 7:53 AM EDT |
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Change:Banks can create money by loaning money or buying government bonds, but when they make bad loans that go into default, the cycle breaks down.
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Problems, Criticisms, and Complications
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Mar 5 2008, 8:17 AM EST |
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Change: to government borrowing. Expansionary fiscal policy involves the government taking loans.Increase in public loans drive up the demand for loans and increases interest rates. As a result private investments decrease and GDP falls. This may offset the motive of the fiscal policy, which is to increase GDP.
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Substantive Issues relating to the Debt
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Mar 5 2008, 8:04 AM EST |
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Change:debt with goods, services, or money.Crowding-out effect: Public borrowing increases demand for loans and drives up interest rates, causing less private investment spending. This may be a burden to future generations in the form of lower GDP and a potentially lower standard of living.
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The Public Debt
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Mar 5 2008, 7:57 AM EST |
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Change: is considerably bigger than the debt, then the debt is fine. If the debt is bigger than the GDP, however, the country may be in some trouble.International comparasons:Interest charges: Primary burden of debt comes from the interest rate payments accruing from bonds sold to finance previous debt.Ex.
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The Business Cycle
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Feb 12 2008, 7:51 AM EST |
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Change:Peaks are only temporary because at full employment, real output can hardly rise anymore while the spending keeps increasing. This results in inflation. As the level of spending increases, output/employment/income increases due to:Higher profits so suppliers are likely to provide more quantityWhich leads to hiring more laborersAs
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Shortcomings of GDP
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Feb 12 2008, 7:25 AM EST |
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Change:off if there is less gap between wealthy and poor, but GDP does not represent this aspect of well-being Per capita output GDP itself does not reflect the well being of people in the nation, it is the GDP per capita that is important. E.g. China's GDP
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Nominal vs. Real GDP
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Feb 12 2008, 7:01 AM EST |
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Change:GDP. Multiply the base year's price to the output of each year to get the total real GDP. Multiply each year's price to its corresponding output and add them up to get total nominal GDP. Dividing nominal GDP by price index Real GDP = nominal
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Macro Unit 1 AP Econ in the News
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Jan 26 2008, 9:36 AM EST |
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Change:This article provided by a Deloitte contains analysis of different factors that could have caused the frequent recessions that takes place in today’s market. In
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AP Econ in the News - Unit 4 "Market Failure"
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Jan 20 2008, 4:14 AM EST |
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Change: Obviously, here an overallocation of fishing capital (high-tech fleets, fishing nets) are invested that created such negative externalities to the Ocean. As the population of
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The Issues of Freedom
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Jan 20 2008, 4:05 AM EST |
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Change:generally favor such positive rights as the right to vote, the right to an education, the right to health care, and the right to a
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Tax Incidence and Efficiency Loss
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Change: taxesPersonal Income tax: ProgressiveSales Taxes: Regressive. (excise taxesare a type of sales tax, where only particular products are taxed)Corporate Income Tax: Proportional.Payroll Taxes: RegressiveProperty Taxes: Regressive (taxes are completely borne by the property owner because there is no one else to charge)
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Apportioning the Tax Burden
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Jan 20 2008, 3:24 AM EST |
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Change:Help to redistribute society's wealth Sales taxes Regressive because poor families spend, and therefore have sales taxes apply to their entire income, while richer families spend only a part
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