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  2. Procyclical and countercyclical variables - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, any economic quantity that is negatively correlated with the overall state of the economy is said to be countercyclical. [3] That is, quantities that tend to increase when the overall economy is slowing down are classified as 'countercyclical'. Unemployment is an example of a countercyclical variable. [4]

  3. Cyclical asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    Cyclical asymmetry is a form of nonlinear economics and so its effects can be widely varied. However, the primary identification of a cyclical asymmetry is that resources, results, or actions taken to correct a change result in an unequal distribution of a resource or factor, which always leads to a disruption. [5]

  4. Circular flow of income - Wikipedia

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    The flow of money is shown with purple, and the flow of goods and services is shown with orange. Money flows in the opposite direction from goods and services. [1] Basic diagram of the circular flow of income. The functioning of the free-market economic system is represented with firms and households and interaction back and forth. [2]

  5. Deficit spending - Wikipedia

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    A cyclical (temporary) deficit is a deficit that is related to the business or economic cycle. The business cycle is the period of time it takes for an economy to move from expansion to contraction, until it begins to expand again. This cycle can last anywhere from several months to many years, and does not follow a predictable pattern. [11]

  6. Neutrality of money - Wikipedia

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    Neutrality of money is the idea that a change in the stock of money affects only nominal variables in the economy such as prices, wages, and exchange rates, with no effect on real variables, like employment, real GDP, and real consumption. [1] Neutrality of money is an important idea in classical economics and is related to the classical dichotomy.

  7. Monetarism - Wikipedia

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    For instance, if the economy is expected to grow at 2 percent in a given year, the Fed should allow the money supply to increase by 2 percent. Because discretionary monetary policy would be as likely to destabilise as to stabilise the economy, Friedman advocated that the Fed be bound to fixed rules in conducting its policy.

  8. Balance of payments - Wikipedia

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    Country foreign exchange reserves minus external debt. In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.

  9. Monetary circuit theory - Wikipedia

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    The streams of money in the national economy. Losses in Circuit; Destruction of Money; Dilemma of profit; A comprehensive model of the total monetary circuit, which is free from the above difficulties, was presented recently by Pokrovskii et al. [6] [7] The figure shows the money flows between the main economic agents. These agents can be ...