Economic Vocabulary Activity
CHAPTER 17 STABILIZING THE
NATIONAL ECONOMY
Directions: Use the following clues to fill in the vocabulary terms on the grid below.
ACROSS
4. Policy favoring growth of money supply at 3 to 5
percent a
year (two words)
8. Policy of using taxation and spending to affect
business activity overall
9. Transactions by people who do not report income
to federal or state government (two words)
10. Period of unemployment and rising prices
11. Government attempts to keep the economy
healthy, using monetary and fiscal policies
DOWN
hare-hold
1828): one
has a part
ty, esp
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1. Cyclical, seasonal, structural, and frictional
2. Type of inflation with pull
3. When unemployment is below 5 percent, there is
this (two words).
5. Kind of inflation with full employment (two words)
6. Economists who oppose fiscal policy to stimulate or
slow the economy
7. Describes movement of income between people
and government (two words)
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