Economic Indicators
Gross Domestic Product
GDP per Capita
Gross National Product
What is not calculated in the GDP
Real v. Nominal Wages + REAL = NOMINAL= Base Year
Real and Nominal Interest Rates Real: Accounts 4 Inflation rate Nominal: Rate not adjusted 4 inflation
Real and Nominal GDP
GDP Deflator w/ 100 Nominal Real Indicator of
CPI = Consumers Price Index
Market Basket: items used to track inflation
Inflation rate increase in price level of goods / services
THE COSTS OF INFLATION
Deflation
Unemployment Rate (looking but can’t find work)
Labor Force Participation Rate % of population older
Discouraged Workers
The Underemployed
Structural Unemployment
Cyclical Unemployment Low points/ fluctuations in cycle = cyclical unemployment
THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT …normal rate of employment which fluctuates… Includes…