1. Warm Up – December 5 Answer the following questions on a post-it:
1. What are four economic indicators that can be used to measure the health of an economy?
2. What is GDP?
3. What does the unemployment rate measure? Why will the unemployment rate always be at least 4 – 5 %?
4. What Is inflation?
5. Describe the difference between a bull market and a bear market

2. Monetary Policy Article
Take notes while reading the article focusing on the following topics:
Definition of the Federal Reserve – what is it, what comprises its network and who oversees it
Why its significant that the Federal Reserve is an independent agency
What is the Fed’s mandate – what does this mandate mean?
Describe the purpose of the Fed making decisions in regards to monetary policy
Definition of Monetary Policy
How do banks benefit from lower interest rates
How do banks benefit from lower reserves
How does the Fed slow down growth of the economy?

4. Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy
Monetary policy is primarily concerned with the management of interest rates and the total supply of money in circulation and is generally carried out by central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve. 
Fiscal policy is the collective term for the taxing and spending actions of governments

5. Globalization of the Economy
Unit 7: the Economy
Globalization of the Economy

7. Globalization of the Economy
Entire world = increasingly seen as one single market
Globalization = an approach to the world economy that favors:
Reduction of tariffs
Free global movement of capital
A mobile and temporary workforce
Privatization of state-run enterprises
Stopping government efforts to regulate the economy
Cuts in taxes and government spending

8. Globalization of the Economy
New Technologies
Innovations in shipping
Huge oil tankers
Air express services
Fiber-optic cables
Internet

9. Reglobalization
The world began to “reglobalize” after WWII, following the contractions of the 1930s
Involved the accelerating circulation of:
Goods
Capital (money and investments)
People

10. Circulation of Goods
As world trade skyrocketed, an increased number of goods began to circulate around the globe
Supermarkets and stores now stock their shelves with products from every part of the globe

11. Ford recently opened a new engine plant just outside of Mexico City
Circulation of Money
Money has become extremely mobile in three major ways:
Foreign direct investment = when a company or firm in one country opens a factory in another country
Rich countries and companies are always after: cheap labor, tax breaks, and looser environmental regulations
Ford recently opened a new engine plant just outside of Mexico City

12. Transnational Corporations
Transnational Corporations (TNCs) = global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries
Example: Mattel Corporation’s Barbie doll made in factories in Indonesia and China, using molds from the U.S., plastic and hair from Taiwan and Japan, and cotton cloth from China
McDonalds in foreign countries such as Japan and China

13. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Economic globalization has helped generate the most remarkable increase in economic growth and creation of wealth in world history
Value of total world output in 1950 = $7.1 trillion
Value of total world output in 2003 = $55.9 trillion
Positive impacts on human welfare:
Growth in life expectancies
Declining infant mortality rates
Increasing literacy
Falling world poverty

14. TOD – December 5
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What is the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy?
2. What is globalization?
3. What innovations in technology have led to increased globalization?
4. Globalization involves the circulation of which three things?
5. Define a Foreign Direct Investment and Transnational Corporation
6. What are the three ways that money has become mobile?

15. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Economic globalization increased the gap between the Global North and the Global South
Clear division in the human community = the rich industrialized countries (mostly in Europe and North America) versus everyone else

16. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
This widening gap has been evident in great differences in:
Incomes
Medical care
Availability of clean drinking water
Educational and employment opportunities
Access to the Internet

17. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Contentious economic issues between the Global North and the Global South:
Rules for free trade
Availability of and terms for foreign aid
Representation in international economic organizations
Growing problem of indebtedness
Environmental and labor standards

18. “Anti - Globalization” Movement
Agree that economic globalization has:
Lowered labor standards
Devastated the environment
Prevented poor countries from protecting themselves against financial speculators
Ignored local cultures
Disregarded human rights
Enhanced global inequality
Favored only the interests of large corporations and rich countries – created a rich Global North and a poor Global South
Antiglobalization Activists