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BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: An independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, education, and publication focused on public policy issues in the areas of economics, foreign policy, and governance. The Brookings Institution takes its name from Somers Brookings (1850-1932) who in 1922 and 1924 founded the Institute of Economics and a graduate school bearing his name. These two institutions and the Institute for Government Research (IGR), which was the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level, merged in 1927 to create the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institution is a non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C.
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Lesson 12: Business Cycles | Unit 2: A Simple Cycle
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A closer look to the business cycle.- The red line represents the pattern of actual real GDP over time.
- The blue line is the long-run trend, the historical average of real GDP growth, about 3% each year.
- In general, real GDP increases.
- But real GDP occasionally declines, frequently rises faster the long-run trend, and seldom rises exactly equal to the long-run trend.
- A business cycle is combination of the two periods, (1) expanding economic activity moves the economy up to and above the long-run trend and (2) declining activity that drops it below this trend.
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SELF CORRECTION, INFLATIONARY GAP The automatic process in which the aggregate market eliminates an inflationary gap created by a short-run equilibrium that is greater than full employment through increases in wages (and other resource prices). The self-correction mechanism is triggered by short-run resource market imbalances that are closed by long-run price flexibility. The self-correction process of the aggregate market also acts to close a recessionary gap with lower wages (and other resource prices).
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It's estimated that the U.S. economy has about $20 million of counterfeit currency in circulation, less than 0.001 perecent of the total legal currency.
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
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