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Federal Reserve Bank

St Louis Fed: Unemployment: The Economic Lowdown Podcast Series, Episode 5

9th - 10th
Economic Lowdown Podcast [9:02] explains the basics of unemployment and tells us how it is defined, measured and categorized into three types.
Audio
Federal Reserve Bank

St. Louis Fed: The Business Cycle: The Economic Lowdown Podcast: Episode 18

9th - 10th
Economic Lowdown Podcast, episode 18 [8:48] describes how the economy moves through phases of the business cycle, and the role the Federal Reserve System plays in smoothing some of the ride's bumps.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Business Cycle

9th - 10th
Explains the stages of the business cycle, and how the cycle may be driven by emotion. [11:15]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Automatic Stabilizers

9th - 10th
In addition to discretionary fiscal policy, there are policies and institutions that can help reduce swings in the business cycle. This video discusses the role of automatic stabilizers in the business cycle. [5:15]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Short Run and Long Run Equilibrium and the Business Cycle

9th - 10th
The interaction of SRAS and AD determine national income. We can compare that national income to the full employment national income to determine the current phase of the business cycle. An economy is said to be in long-run equilibrium...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Natural, Cyclical, Structural, and Frictional Unemployment Rates

9th - 10th
Economists typically focus on three kinds of unemployment: cyclical, frictional, and structural. Learn about them, and how they relate to the business cycle, in this video. [5:38]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Value Added Approach to Calculating Gdp

9th - 10th
In this video lesson from Khan Academy, students will learn how a nation's GDP can be calculated by summing up the value added by all the intermediate producers in a nation in a method called the value added approach. This resource is...