Economics Test Fourteen

When inflation is high the _______________of the dollar decreases

• cost value
• purchasing power
• importance
• validity

If CPI goes from 100 to 300 and your salary goes from $100,000 to $200,000, what happened to your purchasing power?

• Increase
• Decrease
• No change

What is inflation?

• rise in all prices
• rise in most prices
• rise in some prices
• rise in general prices

An index that measures the prices of a market basket of goods that typical consumers purchase.

• Consumer Price Index
• Federal Reserve
• Bank
• Deflation

Demand-Pull inflation can be describes as too many _________ chasing too few __________

• jobs, workers
• consumers, producers
• dollars, goods

Who is most likely to be hurt by inflation?

• someone who borrowed money
• a retiree on a fixed income
• a business owner
• the U.S. government

What 2 types of inflation are there?

• demand pull and cost push
• demand pull and supply glut
• supply glut and demand side
• supply inflation and demand inflation

What causes demand pull inflation?

• rise in price due to a decrease in supply
• a rise in price level due to an increase in consumption
• a rise in price due to an increase in the cost of production
• a decrease in price due to a decrease in supply

Which of the following groups suffer from high inflation

• Borrowers
• Lenders
• Taxpayers
• Property Investors

According to the wage-price spiral, if a company gives a worker a raise in pay, what must they also do?

•  Raise the price of their products
• go out of business
• lower the price of their products