Economic ideas
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- the business cycle
- private investment
- private sector
- investor
- investment
- production
- the farm belt
- default (defaulting on a loan)
- surplus
- saving
- spending
- deficit spending
- government spending
- the discount rate — the interest rate the Fed charges on loans to commercial banks
- interest rate
- borrower
- loan
- money
- seller
- income
- income tax
- sales tax
- lender of last resort
- banking system
- balance sheet
- banking regulations
- commercial bank
- central bank
- reserves
- fractional-reserve banking
- depositor
- money supply
- consumption spending
- economic output
- currency
- deposit
- checking account
- checking
- payment
- withdrawal
- bank run
- contagion of fear
- bank holiday (FDR, March 6, 1933)
- contraction of deposits
- demand
- demand management (Keynes)
- supply and demand
- government spending
- profit
- profiteering
- consumer confidence
- irrational exuberance
- animal spirits (Keynes)
- investment bubble
- speculative bubble
- economic downturn
- stock-market crash
- depression
- recession
- inflation
- employment
- unemployment
- unemployment rate
- government intervention
- socialism
- free markets
- Capitalism
- Marxism
- capitalist guilt
People expressing these ideas
- Milton Friedman
- Karl Marx
- Hayek
- Keynes
- Paul Samuelson (minor?)