Student Questions Stock Market 1) Why have there been declines in performances of stock markets and what are

the solutions to such problems in the market? 2) How does the stock market fluctuate so much in a day? 3) What effect does GDP have on the stock market? GDP 1) How does the GDP affect our daily life and why should GDP be a concern to average people? 2) Why is GDP so good while the labor market is not? 3) How does the war affect the GDP? Are recent increases in GDP related to the war? 4) What is the most important economic issue in the presidential rule? GDP or employment? Which one will affect the average person most? 5) Why does GDP seem to be relatively stable? What causes this? 6) How does the trade deficit continue to grow even though our GDP is positive? 7) Why do we always look at GDP as an indicator of progress? Is it simply because people in a country producing more do not necessarily enjoy a higher quality of life (right?)? 8) Is it possible to adjust GDP for the growth in population and then compare that over time (i.e., GDP per capita over time)? If so, could you tell when there was high unemployment? Interest Rates and the Money Market 1) Do the interest rates affect the economy? 2) How can the Fed raise and lower interest rates in the economy? What about some the smart businesses that are being hurt because big businesses are the overall determining factors?

3) How do inflation rate, unemployment rate and interest rates all relate? 4) How can Alan Greenspan basically set the interest rates personally? 5) Will the economy go to pot when Greenspan retires? 6) How much effect do changes in interest rates by the Fed have on the economy in the long run and short run? 7) How does macroeconomics affect investments (personal finance) and risk/insurance management? 8) How do the Fed and Treasury control the money supply on two daily bases? Federal Government 1) The US has a government deficit. How is it regarded as the richest country in the world and how does this debt come about? 2) Why do politicians attempt to lie about or manipulate the macroeconomic situation? 3) Why does the US continue to spend money when we have a major budget deficit? 4) Can the presidents economic policies truly affect what happens with the economy? 5) Is the macro economy fragile, due to the enormous amount of consumer debt and national deficit? 6) Could you go through parts of fiscal policy more thoroughly? 7) How do tax cuts stimulate growth in the economy? 8) How does economic data, i.e. unemployment rate, GDP growth, interest rates etc. affect monetary and fiscal policies? Labor Market 1) How does child labor affect the economy? 2) What will help the job market grow? 3) Why is the supply side economy slower to react to change? 4) Why is the unemployment rate so slow to come around?

5) How pertinent is the relationship between GDP and unemployment rate? 6) Why is unemployment rate not decreasing when we have so much money to be spending? 7) How does unemployment rate affect or change the growth of an economy? 8) Which factors will be the major factors in decreasing the unemployment rate? 9) What is the ideal rate of unemployment? Does an ideal rate exist at all? Macroeconomic Indicators 1) Why do the macroeconomic indicators fluctuate so much? Should they remain more constant in theory? 2) What is the major factor (or indicator) used to determine the economic well-being of a country? International Economics 1) Is a high trade deficit a good thing for a super power? 2) How and why do developing countries create policies that are so ineffective? Are there any suggestions you have towards aiding the economic development of these nations? 3) If the foreign trade balance is negative, does this mean the country is not producing at all or it is buying goods more than it is producing? 4) What specific factors in macroeconomic situations of the other nations directly affect the economy of the US? 5) Why has African economy never shown a development over time? Is this because the developed countries put a pressure on Africa with debt or what? 6) How will increasing interest rates affect exchange rate of US dollar relative to foreign currencies? 7) Why are exports often less than imports? Why some goods are subsequently subsidized?

8) How does the value of the US dollar relative to other currencies affect our international trade? 9) How do US and other countries decide on whether or not to charge tariffs and how much of a tariff to charge? 10) What will happen to the US economy if companies start and keep producing the products in foreign countries, to the point where no one produces their own products? 11) Why do we rely on other countries for most agriculture produce? General Questions 1) Where does macroeconomics fit into our daily life? 2) How do the economies stabilize prices? 3) Why can not money trends change? 4) Why do gas prices have to fluctuate so often and so much. Even from state to state? 5) How are savings removed from the economy? Why does the marginal propensity to consume exist? Arent the savings re-invested through banks or other saving options? Are they considered as hidden under mattress? 6) Where did macroeconomics originate and who were the founding people? 7) Could you explain demand and supply curves a little more? What is the difference between aggregate demand (aggregate supply) and demand (supply)? 8) Is it safe to say that raising and lowering taxes should not be a partisan issue rather than an issue of understanding? Is there a time to raise taxes and a time to lower taxes depending on what is happening in the economy? 9) Why did great depression happen and what keeps it from happening again? 10) Why is it about macroeconomics we do not understand? Why is the Russian economy as a whole in such a disastrous state? 11) Could you explain MC, AFC, AVC and other things like those well? 12) Is the economy a zero sum? That is, if there is a progress in one place, does that mean there is a recession in another? 13) What is one thing that could happen that would make the US economy die fastest?

14) Has the Bush administration tried to pass his legislation about opening oil exploration in ANWR? 15) Why is the technology field slowing down? 16) Will Reaganomics work more now or will it fail in the same areas it did in the past? 17) How does macroeconomics affect microeconomics? 18) Why is it that one part of the U.S. economy can strive for success while the other part suffers? 19) I would like to know how to relate the class material directly to the Wall Street Journal. All the different data on all the different pages.