Economic Instability

This are systematic changes in real GDP marked by alternating periods of expansion and contraction. 

• business cycle
• peaks and changes
• trend line indicators
• business fluctuations

This is the statistical series of 30 representative stocks used to monitor stock market price changes.

• DEZE
• DJIA
• S&P 500
• FDIC

This is the index used to measure price changes for a market basket of frequently used consumer goods.

• CPD
• CPU
• CPI
• GPD

Approximately this many products make up the CPI.

• 100
• 200
• 300
• 400

This is the explanation that prices rise because all sectors of the economy try to buy more goods and services than the economy can produce.

• demand-pull inflation
• cost-push inflation
• producer price inflation
• cost-demand inflation

This is the explanation that rising input costs, especially energy and organized labor drive up the cost of products for manufacturers and thus cause inflation.

• demand-pull inflation
• cost-push inflation
• demand-cost inflation
• producer-push inflation

The current rate of unemployment in the United States of America as of September 2020 is...

• 5%

• 3.7%

• 12%

• 7.9%

This is unemployment caused by annual changes in the weather or other conditions that prevail at certain times of the year.

• cyclical unemployment

• seasonal unemployment

• family unemployment

• regular unemployment

The hiring of outside firms to perform non-core operations at lower operating costs is know as....

• in-putting

• outputting

• in-sourcing

• outsourcing

This is unemployment that is directly related to swings in the business cycle.

• seasonal unemployment

• cyclical unemployment

• structural unemployment

• frictional unemployment