Answer the questions in short answer format
20 points each.
- What is inflation?
- How is it calculated?
- Is every price increase considered inflation?
- What is GDP?
- What are the components (C,G,I,Xn)?
- Which component is the largest contributor to GDP?
- Which is the smallest (or negative) contributor to GDP?
- What is a recession?
- In the United States, who determines a recession?
- What happens to GDP in a recession? Why?
- What can the United States Congress/President do to stop and rescue the nation from a recession?
- List and briefly explain 3 (Hint: look up fiscal policy and/or monetary policy)