1. Subprime Loan Mortgage  A type of loan that is offered at a rate above prime to individuals who do not qualify for prime rate loans.  Quite often, subprime borrowers are often turned away from traditional lenders because of their low credit ratings or other factors that suggest that they have a reasonable chance of defaulting on the debt repayment.  Subprime loans tend to have a higher interest rate and a variable rate than the prime rate offered on traditional loans. The additional percentage points of interest often translate to tens of thousands of dollars worth of additional interest payments over the life of a longer term loan.

2. Subprime Crisis:  The loans the banks gave to the people with bad credit turned into securities.  These securities were bundled and were being traded in the market.  They were given ratings and a value- but it was based upon nothing.  Once the market plummeted the banks turned to the people for payment- the people could not make the payments because the variable interest has skyrocketed.  As a result the people lost their homes, banks lost their money and government was forced to intervene.

3. Wine (thousands of bottles) Grain (thousands of bushels) 015 514 912 9 145 150 underutilized efficient growth Make sure you understand underutilization, and what the shifting of the curve left and right means for a nation.

4. Equilibrium = the point at which quantity demanded and quantity supplied are equal

5. Changes in Supply Input Costs Government Influence Producer Expectations Number of Suppliers in Market International Discoveries/ Conflicts

6. So what causes a shift in the demand curve? Consumer Tastes Population Income Consumer Expectations Prices of related goods

7. How do we calculate elasticity?  If elasticity is less than one then demand is inelastic.  If elasticity is above one then demand is elastic.  If elasticity is equal to then it is unitary elastic. Percentage change in quantity demanded Percentage change in price Elasticity = Percentage change Original number – New Number Original number = 100 x