Tax Project: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2WU4zTE5jZDFseEk/edit
Presentations begin Monday!
If you missed class, see me so you can be put in a group.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
April 24
Tax Review: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2SkpjanNmbmdUWkU/edit
Notebook Check
1. Tax Notes
2. 14.1 Questions
3. Kinds of Taxes
4. Tax Questions
5. Pay Stub
6. 14.2 Questions
7. Business Cycle Notes
8. Unemployment Notes
9. Unemployment WS
10. Tax Review
Notebook Check
1. Tax Notes
2. 14.1 Questions
3. Kinds of Taxes
4. Tax Questions
5. Pay Stub
6. 14.2 Questions
7. Business Cycle Notes
8. Unemployment Notes
9. Unemployment WS
10. Tax Review
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
April 23
Unemployment Questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2Y1Z2eXFJcnNWaHM/edit?usp=sharing
Complete the following: Page 336 #1-6
Complete the following: Page 336 #1-6
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
April 22
Business Cycles Questions:
Unemployment Notes: http://prezi.com/3zgtoinox-mf/copy-of-eco-chapter-13-section-1/
1. What are the 4 phases to a business cycle? Draw a
pictorial representation of a business cycle.
2. What are the contributing factors to each phase
regarding GDP?
3. What is stagflation?
Why is it a problem when an economy experiences it?
4. What are the 4 main economic variables that affect
business cycles?
5. How can interest rates push a business cycle into a
contraction?
6. How did the Great Depression affect economists’
beliefs about the macroeconomy?
7. At what point of the business cycle would you want to
be? In 1-2 sentences explain your
reasoning.
Unemployment Notes: http://prezi.com/3zgtoinox-mf/copy-of-eco-chapter-13-section-1/
Monday, April 21, 2014
April 21
Business Cycles Notes: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2dVVfOUdqTTUxNmc/edit?usp=drive_web
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
April 16
Federal Tax Notes: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2cnFiVWItMWQxRGs/edit
14.2 Questions
- Why do employers withhold a set amount of your income?
- What is taxable income?
- What does Social Security provide?
- What is Medicare?
- What items are taxed for the purpose of changing behavior?
- Explain pay-as-you-earn taxation.
- What is the purpose of FICA?
- Describe withholding and explain how it would affect someone with a part-time job.
- How much of the federal government’s income comes from individual income tax?
10.
What is the difference between an estate tax and a gift tax?
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
April 15
Pay Stub: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2QzBIQ0E5eDEwaUU/edit?usp=sharing
Questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2bEZBR3dPRGRhUEU/edit?usp=sharing
Where your tax dollars go pie chart: http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/11/pf/taxes/how-federal-income-taxes-are-spent/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2bEZBR3dPRGRhUEU/edit?usp=sharing
Where your tax dollars go pie chart: http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/11/pf/taxes/how-federal-income-taxes-are-spent/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Monday, April 14, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
April 11
Chapter
14 Section 1 Questions
- List 10 things that are taxed. Label each as being either Income, Sales, or Property
- Why do governments impose taxes?
- What are the four characteristics of a good tax? Explain the meaning of each.
- What is the difference between a progressive tax and a regressive tax?
- Describe the benefits-received principle. How does it differ from the ability-to-pay principle?
- Could we thrive in a society where taxes aren’t taken? Where they are optional? Explain.
- Explain the impact of the power to tax as expressed in the Constitution on tax policies today?
- Salem has decided to levy a tax to raise money for construction, road maintenance, and other expenses for schools. Should the tax they impose be proportional, progressive, or regressive? Explain your answer.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
April 8
Supply/Demand Jeopardy- https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2YmVkSEJkNzFFVG8/edit
TEST TOMORROW
NOTEBOOK DUE TOMORROW
TEST TOMORROW
NOTEBOOK DUE TOMORROW
Monday, April 7, 2014
April 7
Notebook Check Due Wednesday
1. Demand Notes
2. Demand Questions
3. Demand Changes Questions
4. Supply Changes
5. Supply/Demand Questions
6. Supply/Demand Shifts
7. Equilibrium Questions
8. Elasticity Questions
9. Big Apple Game
10. Supply/Demand Review
Supply and Demand Review Questions:
1. Demand Notes
2. Demand Questions
3. Demand Changes Questions
4. Supply Changes
5. Supply/Demand Questions
6. Supply/Demand Shifts
7. Equilibrium Questions
8. Elasticity Questions
9. Big Apple Game
10. Supply/Demand Review
Supply and Demand Review Questions:
SUPPLY AND DEMAND REVIEW
1.
Explain the law
of supply using a graph on the your paper
2.
Explain the law
of Demand using a graph on your paper
3.
What happens to
the demand for Hot Dog Buns if hot dogs are determined to cause cancer?
4.
Graph and explain
a shortage
5.
What is an
inelastic good? Explain why it is inelastic
6.
What happens to
the demand for Milk if the price of cereal falls to an all time low?
7.
Graph and give
reasons an especially warm summer has resulted in more ice cream being
purchased. As a result, may more ice cream trucks have been seen throughout the
city streets?
8.
The goo material
in lava lamps becomes very expensive. Which curve is affected, how and why?
9.
What is an
elastic good? Give an example.
10. What
is the point called where supply and demand intersect?
11. What
is the market clearing price and why?
12. Graph
an increase in demand and a decrease in supply
13. Explain
how the “price of inputs” affects supply
14. What
is the law of diminishing marginal return?
15. Explain
how demand changes due to the income effect
16. What
is the law of demand?
17. Explain
how demand is affected by the complementary effect.
18. What
is a supply schedule?
19. Goods that have no substitute are what types of
demand?
20. Name
4 reasons why supply changes
21. What
happens to price if there is a decrease in supply?
22. What
happens to price if there is an increase in supply and a decrease in demand?
23. How can you
have a price increase if supply is up and demand is up?
24. What determines the price and the quantity
produced of most goods?
25. How can a shortage develop?
26. What 4 things will cause a demand curve to shift?
27. How can future price affect current demand?
28. How is elasticity determined?
29. What is a price floor?
Give an example.
30. What is a price ceiling? Why would the government implement this?
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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