Paper Assignment

Purpose of Assignment

Will help students develop an understanding of what money is, what forms money takes, how the banking system helps create money, and how the Federal Reserve controls the quantity of money. Students will learn how the quantity of money affects inflation and interest rates in the long run, and production and employment in the short run. Students will find that, in the long run, there is a strong relationship between the growth rate of money and inflation. Students will review the basic concepts macroeconomists use to study open economies and will address why a nation's net exports must equal its net capital outflow. Students will demonstrate the relationship between the prices and quantities in the market for loanable funds and the prices and quantities in the market for foreign-currency exchange. Student will learn to analyze the impact of a variety of government policies on an economy's exchange rate and trade balance.

Assignment: Visit the BLS Create a 1200 word analysis which reviews the following concepts:

• Analyze the history of changes in GDP, savings, investment, real interest rates, and unemployment and compare to forecast for the next five years.

• Discuss how government policies can influence economic growth.

• Analyze how monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables.

• Describe how trade deficits or surpluses can influence the growth of productivity and GDP.

• Discuss the importance of the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency exchange

• Recommend, based on your above findings, create a forecast for the next possible Economic Bubble

• Use a minimum of one source from the University Library and two other reputable source from journals.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.