1. Phases of the Business Cycle
Coach Dunn

2. Contraction Phase
Contraction - Economic growth weakens and becomes a recession.
EX:
Stocks enter a bear market.
Higher unemployment and lower wages  
Ask students to explain how an increasing unemployment rate has a domino affect on the economy. Have someone look up on the internet what the current unemployment rate is.

3. Current Phase that Sweden is in
Expansion -
Sweden's economy is growing briskly. Thanks primarily to low interest rates, debt-driven consumer spending and domestic investment led the economy to grow 3.9% in But slower European growth has reduced net exports since the start of However, domestic consumption has outperformed and will enable output to grow by 3.3% in A pullback in investment coupled with a soft global recovery will slow GDP growth to 1.4% in 2017, and 1.0% in 2018.
Ask students to explain how an increasing unemployment rate has a domino affect on the economy. Have someone look up on the internet what the current unemployment rate is.

4. Where can I find the Country's Phase?
Ask students to explain how an increasing unemployment rate has a domino affect on the economy. Have someone look up on the internet what the current unemployment rate is.