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Net Foreign Factor Income Income earned by Americans in foreign lands - income earned by foreignors in U.S. 0 zeetrit Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:42:17 GMT view revision history
Nominal Interest Rate = Real interest rate + inflation premium (expected rate of inflation). 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
GDP Gap Potential GDP - Actual GDP 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Okun's Law Every 1% above NRU = GDP Gap of 2% 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU) = Frictional Unemployment + Structural Unemployment 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Unemployment Rate = unemployed/total labor force x 100. 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Rule of 70 70/any rate (inflation, growth, etc) = number of years until prices, GDP etc. double 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Rate of Inflation and Growth = PI current year -- PI previous year/PI previous year x 100
or
Real GDP current year -- Real GDP previous year/Real GDP previous year.
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Nominal GDP = Price (P) x Quantity (Q) 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Real GDP and Real Income = Nominal GDP/Price Index x 100
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Real Income/CPI x100
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Price index (temporal comparision of prices of all goods/services in market relative to other yrs), Consumer Price Index ( uses prices of ~300 goods/services used by avg. consumer), Producer Price Index (uses prices of resources, can be used to anticipate inflation) = current price/price in base year x 100
Base Year index is therefore always 100.
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Per Capita GDP = GDP/population 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Disposable Income (DI) = PI -- personal taxes
or
Consumption (C) + Savings (S)
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Personal Income (PI) =
All income of citizens, whether earned or unearned.
NI -- Social Security contributions -- Corporate income taxes -- undistributed corporate profits + transfer payments 1 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:21:45 GMT view revision history
National Income (NI)=
Income earned by American owned resources in the world.
NDP + Net foreign factor income -- indirect business taxes. 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
Net Domestic Product (NDP) = GDP -- Consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history
(nominal) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) = C+Ig+G+Xn 0 zeetrit Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:45:47 GMT view revision history

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