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ECO 372 All Assignments (2 Set)   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
Tutorial contains 2 Papers/PPT for each
Assignment   ECO 372 Week 1 Assignment Ten
Principles of Economics and the Data of
Macroeconomics (2 Papers)   ECO 372 Week 2
Assignment The Real Economy in the Long Run (2
Papers)   ECO 372 Week 2 Principles of Economics
and the Data of Macroeconomics (2 Papers)  
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ECO 372 Final Exam (New)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.
News Story Workers at a car-manufacturing plant i
n Flint, Michigan are laid off because the economy
 is weak and  GM cars aren't selling well. GM isn'
t sure when the plant will reopen. What type of un
employment describes the workers' situation?
Frictional unemployment Structural unemployment
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ECO 372 Final Exam Guide (New 2018)   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   1. Martha
lends 200 to a friend who promises to return it
after a year. Instead of lending it to her
friend, Martha could have put the money in a bank
where she could have earned an interest rate of 2
percent per annum. Marthas opportunity cost of
lending the money is _____.  
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ECO 372 Week 1 Assignment Ten Principles of
Economics and the Data of Macroeconomics (2
Papers)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   This Tutorial contains 2 Papers   Your
organizations CEO is concerned that members of
the strategic planning committee are not familiar
with current economic thought and principles. The
CEO has assigned you the task of developing an
875-word report to introduce some of these
thoughts and principles. Use Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6 and 7 in Principles of Macroeconomics as
your only source.
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ECO 372 Week 1 Discussion Question 1   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What is the
difference between real and nominal GDP? Does GDP
accurately reflect our nations well being?
Explain.
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ECO 372 Week 1 Discussion Question 2   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Unemployment
rate measures the number of unemployed workers in
the labour force. List and explain three types of
unemployment. Find the most recent unemployment
rate of your state. From a personal perspective,
can you explain your view of the current job
market in your local area?
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ECO 372 Week 1 Individual Assignment Economic
Definitions Worksheet (New)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Complete the Macroeco
nomic Terms Worksheet. Click the Assignment Files 
tab to submit your assignment.
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ECO 372 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Macroeconomic Terms   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   The  Macroeconomic
Terms.
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ECO 372 Week 1 Knowledge Check   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.The two frameworks
conventional economists generally use to analyze
macroeconomic issues are 2.The relationship
between real and nominal interest rate can be
expressed by 3.Which of the following economic
activities would be included in the U.S. domestic
gross product (GDP)? 4.Cyclical unemployment is
defined as unemployment that results from 5.The
longest business cycle expansion in U.S. history
occurred in the 10 years from
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ECO 372 Week 1 Worksheet   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ECO 372 Week 1
Worksheet   Complete the Worksheet. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment. Week 1 Worksheet   Use the
information in the table below to calculate Net
Exports (NX) and gross domestic product (GDP), in
billions of dollars.   Consumption Spending. . .
. . .. . . . . . . . . .  12,000 billion Gross
Investment Spending . . . . . . . . . . . . 
3,100 billion
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ECO 372 Week 2 Assignment The Real Economy in the
Long Run (2 Papers)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   This Tutorial
contains 2 Papers Select on an organization and a
product line or specific product from the Fortune
500 Use the University Library to locate this
list in one of the following industries
Transportation, Manufacturing, or Housing. The
organizations strategic plan calls for an
aggressive growth plan, requiring investment in
facilities and equipment, growth in
productivity, and labor over the next five years.
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ECO 372 Week 2 Discussion Question 1   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   How do
Classical and Keynesian economists differ in
their view of the aggregate supply curve?How does
this influence what Classical and Keynesian
economists believe about fiscal policy? Do you
think the current President and Congress were
taking Classical  approach in their fiscal
policies? Explain your answer.
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ECO 372 Week 2 Group Discussion Question   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What is
the difference between contractionary and
expansionary fiscal policies? Which is more
appropriate today? Explain your answer. How might
contractionary and expansionary fiscal policies
affect your organization?
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ECO 372 Week 2 Individual Assignment Product
Purchases and the Economy   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   You've been debating 
on making a purchase for yourself.  This is a prod
uct you've wanted for a while, but one that requir
es budgeting because you will be making monthly pa
yments.  Select a product in which the demand for 
the product is clearly affected by the strength or
 weakness of the overall economy such as new homes
, cars, appliances, smart phones, etc. Write a 1,0
50- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the f
ollowing 
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ECO 372 Week 2 knowledge Check   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.The globalized
AS/AD curve is the standard AS/AD model with an
added 2.According to Say's Law, people 3.A shift
in the long-run aggregate supply curve will
change 4.The hypothesis about the macroeconomy
that sees the recent problems with the U.S.
economy directly related to the structural
problems caused by globalization is referred to
as the __________ hypothesis.
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ECO 372 Week 2 Principles of Economics and the
Data of Macroeconomics (2 Papers)   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
Tutorial contains 2 Papers   Your organization's
CEO is concerned that members of the strategic
planning committee are not familiar with current
economic thought and principles. The CEO has
assigned you the task of developing an 875-word
report to introduce some of these thoughts and
principles. Use Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
in Principles of Macroeconomics as your only
source. 
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ECO 372 Week 2 Worksheet   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ECO 372 Week 2
Worksheet Complete the Worksheet. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment. Week 2 Worksheet What are discouraged
workers? Are there likely to be more discouraged
workers when the economy is booming or when the
economy is in recession?     Even when the
economy is strong, there will be some people who
are unemployed because they recently entered the
labor force or lost/left
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ECO 372 Week 3 Discussion Question 1   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What is the
difference between contractionary and
expansionary monetary policy? Which is more
appropriate today? What are the impacts of this
policy on US economy?
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ECO 372 Week 3 Group Discussion Question   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What
are the uses of money?Describe how rapid
inflation can undermine moneys ability to
perform its three basic functions. Will current
Fed's policy hinder money's ability to perform
its three basic functions? Explain your rational.
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ECO 372 Week 3 knowledge Check   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.If you expect
interest rates to rise, you will want to be
holding   2.The interest rate is the price paid
for the use of a   3.Which of the following do
policy makers tend to target when setting
monetary policy?   4.If the Federal Reserve
reduced its reserve requirement from 6.5 percent
to 5 percent, this policy would most likely  
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ECO 372 Week 3 Team Assignment Fiscal Policy
Paper   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Select an organization with which the team is 
familiar. Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in wh
ich you include the following   Research federal
 government spending and taxes over the last 3-5 y
ears (fiscal policy). Has total government spendin
g increased or decreased? Explain.  Have income ta
x rates increased or decreased? Explain.   Descri
be the impact of these fiscal policies on the U.S.
 economy  Describe the impact of these fiscal pol
icies on your team's selected organization.
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ECO 372 Week 3 Team Assignment Fiscal Policy
Paper   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Select an organization with which the team is 
familiar. Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in wh
ich you include the following   Research federal
 government spending and taxes over the last 3-5 y
ears (fiscal policy). Has total government spendin
g increased or decreased? Explain.  Have income ta
x rates increased or decreased? Explain.   Descri
be the impact of these fiscal policies on the U.S.
 economy  Describe the impact of these fiscal pol
icies on your team's selected organization.
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ECO 372 Week 3 Team Assignment Money and the
Prices in the Long Run and Open Economies
PRESENTATION   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Money and the Prices
in the Long Run and Open Economies   Purpose of
Assignment  Week 3 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
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ECO 372 Week 3 Team Paper   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ECO 372 Week 3 Team
Paper Each team member, other than the Team
Leader, should select one of the five topics
below. If a team has fewer than 6 members, you
may leave off one or more topics so no one has to
cover more than one. After selecting your topic
and indicating your choice in the Team Discussion
Forum, use the textbook and other sources to
conduct your research, write your section, and
edit your work (approximately 150 words in
length). Follow the Team
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ECO 372 Week 3 Worksheet   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ECO 372 Week 3
Worksheet Complete the Worksheet. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment. Week 3 Worksheet List and briefly
describe the functions of money.   What are the
main components of M1 and M2?   What is the value
of the deposit multiplier if the required reserve
ratio is 20 percent?
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ECO 372 Week 4 Discussion Question 1   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Who benefits
from a tariff or quota? Who loses? What are the
positives and negatives of protectionist trade
policies? Which policy is best right now?
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ECO 372 Week 4 Group Discussion Question   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Define
trade surplus and  trade deficit? How do trade
deficits and surpluses affect exchange rate and
the industry in which you work?
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ECO 372 Week 4 Individual Assignment
International Economics Paper   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Select an organizatio
n that both U.S. and international presences. Writ
e a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you answer
 address the following    What does the presiden
t and congress do to stimulate the economy? What d
oes the president and congress do to contract the 
economy?  What does the Federal Reserve do to sti
mulate the economy? What does the Federal Reserve 
do to contract the economy?  What motivates polic
ymakers to stimulate the economy or contract the e
conomy?
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ECO 372 Week 4 knowledge Check   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.In the long-run
framework, budget surpluses 2. The budget deficit
or surplus is 3.Deficits and surpluses are best
viewed as 4.Suppose the government increases
spending by 30 billion and raises taxes at by
20 billion at the same time. Then, 5 Because
automatic stabilizers lower transfer payments and
raise tax receipts as an economy recovers from a
recession, they
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ECO 372 Week 4 Team Assignment Short-Run Economic
Fluctuations (2 PPT)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   This Tutorial
contains 2 Presentations   Select an organization
your team is familiar with or an organization
where a team member currently works. Create a 15-
to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
that will be presented to the organization's
Executive Committee. The presentation should
cover the following items
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ECO 372 Week 4 Team Reflection Supply Chain and
Demand Model   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Discuss the
relationship between supply chain and the supply
and demand model.  Prepare a 350- to 1,050- word
paper detailing the findings of your discussion.  
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ECO 372 Week 5 knowledge Check   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.In the U.S.
current account, most of the trade deficit
results from an excess of imported 2.What is the
difference between the balance of trade and the
balance of payments? 3.If a government has
implemented significantly higher trade tariffs,
but does not want this action to affect the
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ECO 372 Week 5 Team Assignment Deficit and Debt
Presentation   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Create a 15- to 18-sl
ide PowerPoint presentation including detailed sp
eaker notes in which you include the following 
 Research the direction of monetary policy over th
e last 3-5 years. Has the money supply increased o
r decreased? Explain.  Have interest rates increas
ed or decreased? Explain.   Describe the impact o
f these monetary policies on the U.S. economy  De
scribe the impact of these monetary policies on yo
ur team's selected organization.
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ECO 372 Week 5 Team Assignment Major Debates over
Macroeconomic Policy (2 Papers)   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
Tutorial contains 2 Papers     Select two
subjects from the following list of topics and
write a 1,050-word analysis   Active monetary
and fiscal policy   Increased government
spending to fight recessions   Reducing federal
government's discretionary powers  
Zero-inflation target
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