(03.01–03.09 HC) For all graphs, be sure to correctly and co…

(03.01–03.09 HC) For all graphs, be sure to correctly and completely label all axes and curves and use arrows to indicate the direction of any shifts.The United States is currently experiencing an inflationary gap. Draw a correctly labeled graph of the aggregate demand, long-run aggregate supply, and short-run aggregate supply curves. Label the equilibrium price level PL1 and the equilibrium real output Y1. Label the full-employment level of output YF. What can be assumed about the actual rate of unemployment compared to the natural rate of unemployment, based on the information above? Explain. Assume that the output gap is estimated to be $800 billion and the federal government decides to take action. If the marginal propensity to consume is 0.8, by how much would it need to change government spending to close the gap? Show your work and indicate whether the change would be a spending increase or decrease. An alternative bill in Congress proposes to use the income tax to close the output gap rather than changes in spending. Calculate the change in tax revenue the government would need to close the gap. Assume the same figures as part (c). What is one possible automatic stabilizer in the economy that would contribute to closing this output gap? Assume that instead of intervening, the government allowed the economy to self-adjust in the long run. On your graph from part (a), illustrate how the economy would self-adjust in the long run. If the GDP deflator is 140 in the year that the inflationary gap is identified, and three years later it is 140, does this mean that there has been inflation over the three years? Explain. After the long-run adjustment in part (f), is the economy operating on, inside, or outside of its production possibilities curve?

(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The…

(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”They neither care nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end, and others being pointed in various ways…I was attentive, and took trouble to ascertain if there was gold. I saw that some of them had a small piece fastened in a hole they have in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the south, or going from the island to the south, there was a king who had great cups full, and who possessed a great quantity.”Source: Christopher Columbus, from his journal entries dated 12–14 October, 1492Reports such as Columbus’s encouraged the European powers to