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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION: A program established by Congress in 1933, during the worst of the Great Depression, to insure the deposits of failed banks. Abbreviated FDIC, it operates operates much like any private insurance company. It collects insurance premiums from its customers--the banks--in return for the assurance that it will stand behind, or be ready to pay off, any deposits that the banks can't.
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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 3: Business Cycles
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To understand business cycles, we need the causes:- Consumption: If households decide to buy more or less, the rest of the economy follows suit.
- Capital Investment: Big swings can set in motion upward or downward spirals of total production.
- Government Purchases and Taxes: Government purchases can be contractionary or expansionary effect over the economy. Taxes affect the ability of the household and business sectors to buy production.
- Net Exports: Changes in exports can trigger expansions and contractions of the domestic economy.
- Circulating Money: Too much money can trigger and inflationary expansion, too little money can trigger contraction and unemployment.
- Resource Supply Considerations: Resource supply changes (energy prices, technology, wages, etc.) can trigger expansions and contractions.
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KEYNESIAN EQUILIBRIUM The state of macroeconomic equilibrium identified by the Keynesian model when the opposing forces of aggregate expenditures equal aggregate production achieve a balance with no inherent tendency for change. Once achieved, a Keynesian equilibrium persists unless or until it is disrupted by an outside force, especially changes in autonomous expenditures.
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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." -- John F. Kennedy, 35th U. S. president
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ACIR
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