1 What is a recession?
2 What causes a recession?
3 What phase of the business cycle are we currently in?
4 If 7 million workers are unemployed and 55 million workers are
employed, calculate the unemployment rate. Round to the nearest
tenth of a percent.
5 Starting from the previous problem, if 2 million unemployed
workers stop looking for work, recalculate the unemployment rate.
Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.
6 Starting from the previous problem, if...