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How does this factor impact our economy?

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What is the current rate/numbers with this factor? What impact is this factor having on our economy now?

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Link and Summarize a current news article regarding factor

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What effect would this factor have on your current decision with $10,000

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The proportion of a loan that is charged as an interest to the borrower, typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan outstanding

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The difference between a country’s exports and imports

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The dollars available for spending in our economy.

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In your own words...

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The number of new homes being built.

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This is the price of consumer goods, usually measured using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Shows the change over time of a fixed basket of goods and services typically purchased by the consumer.

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A measurement of a section of the stock market or encompasses the market as a whole. Simple for buyers and sellers to read.

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People buying things they need and want

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People who do not have a job

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If the money supply increases rapidly there will be more inflation, lower interest rates, and high unemployment.

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If countries exports are more than imports, it can result in price changes for foreign goods

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When consumers pay less in int, this gives them more money to spend, which can create a ripple effect of increased spending throughout the economy. Businesses and farmers also benefit from lower intrest rates, as it encourages them to make large equipment purchases due to the low cost of borrowing

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Total amount of products and services produced in a country

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Changes the buying power of a dollar aka inflation

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When new homes are being built overall the economy is doing well. This means more job opportunities for construction companies and housing suppliers, higher wages, and more consumer spending. Housing starts can vary by region depending on the weather.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-consumer-prices-rose-0-1-in-september-1539261297
In the last year overall prices rose 2.3% the smallest year over year change.
In the last 2 months September, and August the both grew less than expected

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Higher causes more jobs and higher wages, borrowing can cause higher consumer prices and interest rates

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Changes an individuals standard of living and can lead to an erosion of their skills.
There is a correlation between higher crime and less volunteerism in a society with high unemployment. High unemployment causes a country to have higher payments for things like unemployment benefits. Lower unemployment rates increase spending in the

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Says if economy is stable or unstable. Health of economy is based of GDP.

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Influences people on whether to buy or sell stocks at certain times.

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In 2018 Quater 3 the economy grew at 3.4%

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-M1: $3.78 Trillion
-M2: $14.454 Trillion
-Interest Rate: 2.5%

As of Now

Based off of these statistics, the high consumer spending and low interest rates are stimulating our economy. However, because of the low interest rates, more people are taking out loans which could cause inflation.

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This article talks about how the cost of building houses is going up, so it is harder to sell houses at cheaper prices. Although the cost to make the houses is rising, the market is still doing well, because of the decreasing unemployment rate. It also talks briefly about how the rising cost and interest rates are pushing some potential buyers out of the market.

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The us is currently at $-55.5B. This means we have 55.5 billion dollars more in imports. The more a countries trade deficit grows the more the country losses domestic jobs to those abroad. Trade deficits cause changes in the value of currency and interest rates

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China’s GDP dropped .2% from 2017. Lowest rate of growth in last 28 years. Still met there goal however.

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Consumer spending is going up, but so is inflation, in 2017 there was a 4.8% change from 2016, and it continues to go up another 3.8%.

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Officials increased the target for the bank's benchmark rate by 0.25%, to a range of 2%-2.25. This makes it so the economy moves slower and people don’t get as many loans and don’t take out as much money.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/consumer-spending-increases-strongly-inflation-rising.html
Demand is going up and so is prices. This also makes inflation increase.

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In November 2018 we built 1.256 million houses which beat the housing forecast by 0.2%. Since the housing market is doing good our economy is doing good as well

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Th article shares that US tariffs are ineffective and are failing to lower the deficit of our imports and exports.

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THE TRADE war between the United States and China is set to heat up. On March 2nd Donald Trump is scheduled to increase American tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200bn of imported Chinese goods. Last week representatives from the two sides held preliminary talks that ended on a surprisingly good note, spurring hope that Mr Trump might cancel his planned escalation. He would be wise to back off: recent research suggests that ploughing ahead will not only harm his country's economy, but will also fail to reduce America's bilateral trade deficit with China.
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A new paper submitted to America's National Bureau of Economic Research reinforces the prevailing view that tariffs harm a country's economy, and finds that this damage lasts for a surprisingly long time. Davide Furceri and three co-authors calculate that increasing tariffs by a single percentage point corresponds to decreases of 0.12% and 0.23% in GDP and labour productivity, when measured five years after the shock. In exchange for such costs, trade warriors hope to reduce their trade deficits. But the researchers found no statistically significant long-term association between rising tariffs and subsequent changes in trade balances. They actually deteriorated slightly in the year tariffs were increased (see zero "years after rate change" on trade-balance chart), and after five years wound up right at their level before the policy went into effect.

Because Mr Trump's tariffs are limited to specific goods and trading partners, their effects may differ significantly from these estimates. However, America is already feeling some of the costs of its president's protectionism. China was the largest market for America's soyabean exports in 2017; it reduced its imports of the product by 94% last year. Correspondingly, the market price of a bushel of soyabeans has fallen from nearly $11 early last year to $9 today. And although Mr Trump vowed to be an ally of steelmakers, shares of American steel companies have fallen by 22 percentage points more than the stockmarket as a whole since he announced the tariffs, thanks to concerns over falling exports, retaliatory tariffs and the uncertain future of trade policy. Mr Trump may need to abandon his "Tariff Man" agenda if he hopes to ride a strong economy to re-election in 2020.

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Tariffs are ineffective as well as counterproductive

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THE TRADE war between the United States and China is set to heat up. On March 2nd Donald Trump is scheduled to increase American tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200bn of imported Chinese goods. Last week representatives from the two sides held preliminary talks that ended on a surprisingly good note, spurring hope that Mr Trump might cancel his planned escalation.

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Unemployment rates:
United States:  4.0% as of June 2018
Wisconsin:  2.9% as of June 2018
(Bureau of Labor Statistics)

-Unemployment rates are decreasing from years past
-Because of low unemployment rates business can struggle to find people to fill the jobs they need filled

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Well if you invested some of the money this would impact you. The stock market affects consumer confidence. So if the stock market is rising the GDP will probably be going up because people will be spending money more often and if the stock market is down for an extended period of time, people will hesitate to make purchases lowering the production of products and services.

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Markets in general have been going up overall,

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Markets in general have been going up overall, and remain pretty steadily increasing for

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/upshot/interest-rates-are-rising-thats-great-news-for-most.html
Intrest rates are going up which is good for the long term economy, but is slowing down some markets like housing market.

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If you save your money to buy something later, you won’t be able to buy as much, making your money worth less to you, so people would buy right away, losing the money they have.

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Markets have been steadily increasing gradually over time with no rapid change

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The US being the worlds largest econemy has held onto its demand for currency making its value remain uneffected. Interest rates can also be effected by a trade deficit leading to inflation. however the central bank uses multiple tools to control inflation meaning despite the US large trade deficit, they can avoid some of the downsides that may defect its citizens.

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Consumer prices is one of the best indicators of inflation. Because of this, an increase in consumer prices would indicate a positive inflation rate. If the $10,000 was not invested, this could effect the buying power of that money. This however depends on the direction of the CPI in correlation with inflation.

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Consumer prices is one of the best indicators of inflation

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Consumer prices is one of the best inicaters of inflation

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Consumer prices is the

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Consumer prices

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From CNN Business: Markets are going steady, and went up yesterday

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Markets going up or down could gain or lose people money depending on their investments. People can often overestimate the fluctuations of the market just because they see a red or a green number next to it, but it can also help investors get a general overview of the market as a whole.

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Our current rate of unemployment of 4% in the U.S. and 2.9% in Wisconsin are lower than the natural unemployment rate of 4.5%-5%. This lower rate causes businesses to not be able to find enough workers to operate at full capacity.

https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-unemployment-rate-statistics-and-news-3305733

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Link: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-and-the-gop-are-making-our-economy-great-again

Summary: The result of our increasing money supply includes lower unemployment rates, unenrollment in social welfare, the GDP has skyrocketed, and more jobs have been created.

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Inflation is down st 1.9% as of 1/11 in 12/12/2018 inflation was at 2.2%

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Less likely to take out loan and more likely to keep money invested.

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With our current unemployment rate in mind, we would be better off investing the $10,000 in stock because as unemployment rates decrease the stock market does better.

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Say we invested our money, our stock value would increase fast because higher consumer spending means higher demand which would drive prices up.