Name:___Ryan Stone___________________________________

Section: ____Econ 2020________

E-Portfolio Signature Assignment

Salt Lake Community College
Macroeconomics - Econ 2020
Professor: Heather A Schumacker
Please type your answers to the following questions. If you need to hand draw the graphs on page 3 you may and then scan them as a
separate document. When you have completed this assignment post it to your e-portfolio along with your chosen article and 20 terms
article write up. (20pts) make sure to put an explanation of the assignments and a reflection statement on your ePortfolio web site. For
examples of reflection prompts please see SLCCs website: https://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio/docs/ReflectionHandout2.pdf. (10
pts) Link your ePortfolio URL to your MyPage under the student tab so that instructors can view your work. (5pts)
1.

2.

What are the 3 main macroeconomic goals economists would like to see for an economy: (3pts)
1. Full employment_____________________________________
2. stability_____________________________________
3. economic growth_____________________________________
What is the formula for GDP (write out the full name)? Circle or highlight the largest component and fill in the chart. Under each
put the components and something unique. (19pts)

GDP = consumer spending_

Components:
Circle the largest sub-category
1.durable
2.non durable
3*.services*

+ business investment

+ _government spending

+ net exports__

Components:

Components:

Components:

1.inventory
2.capital investments
3.construciton
Excludes:

1.goods
2.services

1.exports
2.imports

1.stocks bonds financial assets

1.transfer payments

Excludes:

2.debted interest
3.

What is the problem associated with being at AD2 that makes policy makers concerned? (1pt)
__________________rapid inflation ___________________

Q1

Q Full
Employment

Q2

REAL OUTPUT (quantity per year)

4.

Who does fiscal and monetary policy? What are 2 fiscal policies and 3 monetary policies to correct a situation where the economy
is naturally at AD* but finds itself at AD2, as seen in the graph on the previous page. Briefly explain how each of these policies
would work to correct the situation. (22pts)
Who does fiscal policy: ______federal government_________________________
1.

______-increase government spending_______________________________

Increase GDP
Increase disposable income and create more jobs ______
-decrease taxes_______________________________
____increase spending from the consumer and increase disposable income

Who does monetary policy: _____federal reserve bank___

1.

-Open Markets
The Fed can buy bonds back from the public and increase the money supply and bank reserves
_______________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________

2.

-Reserve requirements_____________________________________
The Fed can decrease or increase the amount of money banks have available to lend from the difference
between the reserve requirement and their deposits.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________

-Discount Rate_____________________________________
The rate that the Fed charges banks to borrow money for their reserves. Banks will borrow more and lend more.

5.

Begin in equilibrium in each of the following graphs; draw the effects from question 2 above as they would apply in each graph
below. Next draw the effects of an anti-inflationary policy taken by the fed to correct the result from question 2 - use both graphs.
Explain what is happening in each graph and overall in the economy as the due to the anti-inflationary policy. (20 pts)
Money Supply and Money Demand Graph
Nominal
Interest Rate
Aggregate
Demand and
Aggregate Supply

Money Supply Curve (MS)

PL

Real GDP

AS

Money Demand (MD)

AD

6.Given the situation our economy has been in the past several years why have fiscal and monetary policy had a difficult time
getting us back to the optimal level of GDP. (5pts)
Government spending has been out of control. Fiscal policy should focus on reducing the level of government spending. It seems as
we are a bit lost on this subject. Should focus on the expenditures that have the highest upside with a low cost. I believe the massive
amount of debt is was too much to recover quickly from.

6.

FRED: Follow the instructions for this assignment on PDF handout.

Before you start, make sure to log in to your free account so that you can save your graphs!
FRED unemployment graph:
Watch the video Introduction to FRED and complete your own unemployment graph. Instead of using St. Louis use Salt
Lake City. Have the graph span the last 10 years. Write about what inferences you can make from this graph. Save and paste
the graph here: (5pts for the graph and 5 pts for write-up)
<iframe src="//research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/graph-landing.php?g=4lnx" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="overflow:hidden; width:670px; height:475px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=4lnx

7.

List the 3 types of Unemployment, define each, and put a star next to those that are included in the natural rate of
unemployment. (8pts)
1. *Structural unemployment, exists when there are jobs available and people willing to work but there isn't
enough people qualified to fill the open or vacant jobs

2.

*Frictional unemployment is the time period between jobs when a worker is searching for, or transitioning
from one job to another. It is sometimes called search unemployment and can be based on the circumstances of

3.

the unemployed individual.____________________________________

Cyclical unemployment, is a factor of overall unemployment that relates to the cyclical trends in growth and
production that occur within the business cycle
__________________________________________________________________________________________

8.

9.

What is the difference between nominal and real, why is each important? (4pts)
The main difference between nominal and real values is that real values are adjusted for inflation, while

nominal values are not. Because of this the nominal GDP will often appear higher than real GDP.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
FRED Create a GDP graph following the instructions on the handout:
Based on the graph, what is the Real Personal Consumption Expenditures for the second quarter of 2008?
9998.4
Based on the graph, what is the Real Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment amount for the second
quarter of 2008?
2974.981
Based on the graph, what is the Real Gross Private Domestic Investment amount for the second quarter of 2008?
2472.4
Based on the graph, what is the real net exports of goods and services amount for the second quarter of 2008? (4pts)
550.4

10. Write about what inferences you can make from this graph. Save and paste the area graph here: (5pts for the graph and 5 pts
for write-up) https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=4lnx

11. Change the graph type to a pie graph:

Put the curser over the pie graph: What is the value of the current Real Personal Consumption Expenditures
in billions of chained 2009 dollars and what % of GDP is it
What is the value of the current Real Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment

in

billions of chained 2009 dollars and what % of GDP is it

What is the value of the current Real Gross Private Domestic Investment Expenditures
chained 2009 dollars and what % of GDP is it

in billions of

(6pts)

Paste the pie graph here: (3 pts)

Use the excel sheets provided to complete this problem. Scenario 1: If the initial deposit into a bank is $5,000 and the reserve
requirement is 10% use formulas to fill in the chart all the way to completion (where there will be 0 for new deposits). Use formulas
and cell references whenever possible. Fix the cell references for the reserve requirement when entering your formulas on the first
line such that you can drag your information down the rows. Fixing a cell reference is done by putting dollar signs in front of the cell
row and column references ex. $B$3 this will mean that no matter where you copy that cell to it will always refer to cell B3. For
scenario 2, change the reserve requirement to 40%. (20)