Across
- 3. purchasing stock by paying only for a percentage and borrowing the rest in hopes that the value of the stocks will continue to increase
- 5. an effect of buying too much on credit
- 8. when individuals take all their money out of the bank in a panic
- 9. the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a given year
- 12. regular swings or the ups and downs of an economy
- 13. a mild economic downturn
Down
- 1. the percent of workers who are actively looking for, but cant get a job
- 2. when the government spends more money than it receives in taxes
- 4. a place where stocks and bonds are sold
- 6. an unrealistic or unfounded rise in economic values
- 7. a major downturn typically characterized by high unemployment, reduction in credit and consumer confidence and bank and business failures
- 10. a payment by the government to an industry to enable them to sell their products lower than the cost it takes to produce the product
- 11. 100 million acres of farmland that were too dry to farm