Economic Indicators: GDP, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT Unit V Economic Indicators: GDP, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Page 35 – Gross Domestic Product The Components of GDP GDP - market value of final goods, services produced in set time period To be included in GDP, product must be: final, not intermediate produced during the time period, regardless of when sold produced within nation’s borders *Use page 351 – 352 to identify and describe the four components of GDP (one sentence for each).

Page 35 – Gross Domestic Product Look at graph on 351. What does it show you about net exports? Calculating GDP - The Expenditures Approach Consumption - household spending on durable, nondurable goods, services (2/3 of spending) Investment - business spending on capital goods, inventory Government spending - federal, state, local; not transfer payments Net exports - value of exports minus value of imports

Page 35 – Gross Domestic Product Two Types of GDP Nominal GDP - price levels for the year in which GDP is measured states GDP in terms of current value of goods and services Real GDP - GDP adjusted for changes in prices estimate of GDP if prices were to remain constant

Page 35 – Gross Domestic Product 1967 2014 Price $4000 $40,000 # Produced 1000 $4,000,000 $40,000,000 Real vs. Nominal Assuming Camaro production was the only component used to calculate our GDP, which type of GDP would you use and why?

Next Level Question Questions: Rank Country/Region GDP in millions ($) Year -- European Union 16,721,383 2012 1 United States 16,244,600 2 China 8,358,000 103 Afghanistan 20,497 104 Uganda 19,881 Questions: Looking at this table, what might you infer about the relationship between GDP and quality of life? Does GDP and quality of life have a negative, positive or no correlation?

GDP Review Components of U.S. GDP (in billions $) Year Consumption Expenditure Investment Expenditure Government Expenditure Net Export Expenditure Nominal GDP 1980 1757 479 566 -13 2,789 1985 2,720 736 879 -115 4,220 1990 3,840 861 1,180 -78 5,803 1995 4,976 1,144 1,369 -91 7,398 2000 6,739 1,736 1,722 -380 9,817 2005 8,746 2,105 2,363 -727 12,487 What trend can be seen in U.S. nominal GDP? What can you tell from this about the growth of the U.S. economy? Do you need more information? Does the proportion of consumption and the other two positive expenditures remain about the same in the six years shown here? Briefly explain how you estimated this.

Draw this figure on the top half of page 36 Page 36 – Business Cycles PEAK EXPANSION CONTRACTION REAL GDP TROUGH TIME

Page 36 – Inflation After watching the video, answer the following questions: What factors influence inflation? Too many dollars in circulation Supply is limited is not a factor that affects inflation! What role does the Federal Reserve play with regards to inflation? Regulates the amount of money in circulation in order to keep inflation low.

Page 37 – gdp, business cycles Please complete #’s 1 – 8 on page 378 to help you review for the Test on Thursday!