Across
- 3. the increase in the average price of goods and services over time
- 4. a significant and sustained decline in economic activity
- 6. rate, the percentage of people in the labor force who are jobless
- 10. a type of debt security that allows a corporation
- 12. a broad and significant decline in economic activity that lasts for more than a few months
- 13. force, all the members of a particular organization or population who are able to work
- 14. rate, the cost a business pays to borrow money or the return it earns on investments
- 16. the lowest point of economic activity in the business cycle
- 17. the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure
- 18. price index, a measure of the average change over time in the prices
Down
- 1. the physical growth of a business or territory
- 2. the highest point of the business cycle
- 3. rate, the annual percentage increase in the overall price level of a basket of goods and services over a specific period
- 5. the act of concentrating resources, effort, or labor on a particular area
- 7. market, where investors buy and sell shares of stock
- 8. domestic product(GDP), the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period
- 9. a decrease in the general price level of goods
- 11. the fee a business pays a lender (creditor) to borrow money
- 15. cycle, the recurring pattern of overall economic growth and contraction in a market economy