Across
- 4. special tax reductions that help lower a company's tax bill if it follows certain policies the government favors
- 6. economic signs that follow major changes in the business cycle
- 8. strategy to decrease the amount of money in circulation and slow economic growth
- 9. country's ability to produce something more cheaply than it trading partners
- 10. limit on the exchange of goods
- 12. buying and selling of government bonds
- 15. strategy to increase the amount of money in the money supply and encourage economic growth
- 16. when a country sells more than it buys
- 17. amount of money banks must have available at all times
- 18. economic rivalry among businesses selling similar products
- 19. person who buys goods or services
Down
- 1. difference between the value of a country's exports and its imports
- 2. diagram demonstrating how consumers, producers, and the government exchange resources, products, and money payments
- 3. signs that come before major changes in the business cycle
- 5. country's ability to make a product more efficiently
- 7. signs that show economists how the economy is doing at the present time
- 11. deficit when a country buys more than it sells
- 13. person or company that provides goods or services
- 14. value of the next best alternative that is given up when a country specializes
