1. Assume you are Dr. I.O. Many Bucks (Government’s Doc) Your most important patient comes in, Mr. E. Conomy, for a checkup. Okay, maybe this would be better.

2. What economic “vital signs” will you check? One measure of good “health” is if the economy is growing. The government statistic (vital sign) that best measures economic growth is….. GDP----Gross Domestic Product

3. Gross Domestic Product The total dollar value of final goods and services produced in a country in one year America’s GDP is ….. Really big About 14 trillion dollars Wow! $14,000,000,000,000

4. List of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaList of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia GDP - per capita (PPP) - Country Comparison - TOP 100GDP - per capita (PPP) - Country Comparison - TOP 100

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7. Expenditure Approach who buys the economic pie? 1.Consumers (almost 70%) a. Durable goods b. Nondurable goods c. Services (this is a biggie) d. there is no d

8. II. Investment Spending (15%) a. Machines b. Factories c. Houses d. Inventory changes

9. III. Government all levels (about 20%) a. Defense spending b. Road construction c. Other government projects (add C after B on your sheet)

10. IV. Foreign Nations a. We want to count exports b. We don’t want to count imports c. Net Exports (Exports – Imports) Xn (-5%) So, the expenditure approach is.. C + Ig + G + Xn = GDP

11. Cousins of GDP (stop here) 1. GNP 2. NDP 3. GDP – depreciation = NDP 4. What’s depreciation (aka. consumption of fixed capital)? Repairing, maintaining, and replacing capital 5. Gross investment (Ig) expenditures include depreciation expenses 6. Net investment spending does not 7. Ig – In = depreciation

12. SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN TO YOU PERSONALLY? NOT MUCH 8. National Income All income earned by Americans wherever they may be 9. NDP – net foreign factor income - indirect business taxes = National Income (NI)

13. Personal Income 10. Personal Income is all income received in the home whether earned or unearned 11. Not all income is earned nor is all income earned received by households 12. National Income – soc sec -- corp income tax -- undistributed corp profits + transfer payments = Personal Income

14. 13. Disposable Income This one is easy Personal income minus personal income tax = disposable income (DI)

15. IMPORTANT POINT TO REMEMBER THIS IS IN YOUR BOOK! WAGES, INTEREST, RENT, AND PROFITS ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN GDP CALCULATIONS BUT NOT IN THE EXPENDITURE APPROACH (C+Ig+G+Xn) THEY ARE COUNTED IN THE INCOME APPROACH If you are calculating GDP, ignore types of income and just focus on expenditures