What is an Economic Recession?
An economic recession is an extended period of recession, a period in which the productivity of a nation falls.
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- Fiscal Policy
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- Marginal Tax Rates
- Proportional Tax
- Trickle Down Theory
- Discretionary Fiscal Policy
- Automatic Stabilizers
- Effects of Discretionary Policy (Interest Rates & Lags)
- Crowding Out Effect
- National Debt
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- Ricardian Equivalence
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- Austerity
- Twin Deficits
- Fiscal Policy and the Aggregate Supply and Demand Curve
- Stabilization Policy
- Robin Hood Effect
- Ricardo Barro Effect
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- Standardized Employment Budget
- How Does Fiscal Policy Affect Interest Rates?
- Crowding Out
- Types of Lag in Fiscal Policy
- Temporary and Permanent Fiscal Policy
- Limitations of Fiscal Policy?
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- Government Borrowing
- National Savings and Investment Identity
- Debtor Nation
- Fiscal Policy Affects Trade Balances
- Twin Deficits
- Exchange Rates Affect Budget and Trade Deficits
- What are the risks of chronic large deficits in the United States?
- How Fiscal Policy Can Affect Trade Imbalances
- Government Borrowing Affect Private Savings
- Ricardian Equivalence
- Fiscal Policy Affects Investment and Economic Growth
- Crowding Out of Physical Capital Investment?
- How Does Government Borrowing Affect Interest Rates in Financial Markets?
- Government Investment in Physical Capital
- Public Investment in Human Capital
- Fiscal Policy Can Affect Technology Development
- Economic Cycle or Business Cycle
- Business Cycle Indicator
- Peak and Trough
- Recession and Depression
- Hard Landing vs Soft Landing
- Economic Bubble
- Boom and Bust Cycle
- Great Depression
- Baby Boomer Age Wave Theory
- Skyscrapper Effect (Economics)
- V-Shaped Recovery
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- U-Shaped Recovery
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- Contagion
- Feedback Rule Policy
- American Customer Satisfaction Index
- CNN Effect
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Business Starts Index
- American Recover and Reinvestment Act
- Abenomics
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- Commodity Credit Corporation
- Humphrey Hawkins Act
- Real Economic Growth Rate
- Fox-Trot Economy
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- Neoclassical Growth Theory
- Exogenous Growth Theory
- Endogenous Growth Theory
- New Growth Theory – Explained
- Classical Growth Theory – Explained
- Real Economic Growth Rate – Explained
- Plutonomy