{"id":2909,"date":"2012-10-19T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2020-01-15T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T18:50:23","slug":"inflation-unemployment-and-interest-rates-on-the-gmat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/inflation-unemployment-and-interest-rates-on-the-gmat\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation, Unemployment, and Interest Rates on the GMAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third post in the series of articles on real-life facts you need to know for GMAT Critical Reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"GMAT Supply and Demand\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/gmat-supply-and-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economics: Supply and Demand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"GMAT Labor and Wages\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/gmat-labor-and-wages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economics: Labor and Wages<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Economics: Inflation, unemployment, and interest rates<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u201cBeyond Any Reasonable Doubt\u201d on the GMAT\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/beyond-any-reasonable-doubt-on-the-gmat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law: &#8220;beyond any reasonable doubt&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Statistical Significance on the GMAT\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/statistical-significance-on-the-gmat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statistics: Statistical significance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Inflation, unemployment, and interest rates<\/h2>\n<p>Again, this fact may be familiar if you remember your macroeconomic class.\u00a0 Inflation and unemployment and interest rates are three major economic indicators that are all interrelated.\u00a0 Every macroeconomic system has a certain rate of growth: as growth happens, prices naturally rise.\u00a0 When prices are rising undesirably fast, that&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>inflation<\/strong><\/a>. Inflation sustained over a long period can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Depreciation_(currency)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">devalue currency<\/a>: what a dollar can buy holds less and less value.\u00a0 The late 1970s into the early 1980s was the last time there was runaway inflation in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unemployment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>unemployment<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0rate<\/strong>\u00a0is the percent of able-body health adult capable of work who are not working.\u00a0 Technically, the total for the percentage includes everyone who is working and everyone who is actively looking for work; folks who have given up looking for work or homeless folks or anyone who isn&#8217;t working and isn&#8217;t looking for work &#8212; all of these do not count in the percentage.\u00a0 The US unemployment rate has been high (8 \u2013 10% and more) continuously since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis<\/a>.\u00a0 Anything below 5% is considered low.<\/p>\n<p>In general, there&#8217;s a trade-off between the evils of inflation and unemployment.\u00a0 As economic growth slows down, there&#8217;s no risk of inflation, but unemployment rises.\u00a0 As the economic picks us, more people go to work, so unemployment drops, but inflation looms as a risk.<\/p>\n<p>The US government&#8217;s main bank, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Reserve_System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Reserve<\/a>, use\u00a0<strong>interest rates<\/strong>\u00a0as a way to regulate economic growth.\u00a0 Interest rates are the rates charged on borrowing money and the rates paid on savings investments: when interest rates are high, that makes borrowing money less desirable, and it makes saving or investing money more desirable; the opposites are true when interest rates are low.\u00a0 When the economy accelerates and inflation is becoming a risk, the Fed can raise interest rates to slow economic growth: fewer people borrow, and more rich people put their money in the bank or in stocks where it can earn profits with little risk.\u00a0 When the economic slows, and unemployment is rising, the Fed can lower interest rates to stimulate economic growth: more people can borrow and use that money to start businesses, and rich people, not getting much in their investment accounts, have to invest more money directly in businesses to make aggressive profits.\u00a0 From the late 1980s until 2006, the economist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_greenspan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Greenspan<\/a>\u00a0was the chair of the Federal Reserve, and he seemed to have a magical touch, always adjusting the interest rate so that unemployment remained reasonably low and yet inflation never reared its ugly head; by the end of his tenure, Greenspan had a near cult-like following among politicians of both parties.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the US economy has been in a paradoxical place.\u00a0 Since 2008, economic growth has been slow, and unemployment has been high.\u00a0 The Fed has already slashed the interest rate to, essentially, the lowest possible level, so its typical tool for stimulating the economy &#8212; lowering interest rates &#8212; is no longer an option.\u00a0 In recent years, the Fed has introduced a new system,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantitative_easing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantitative Easing<\/a>\u00a0(QE1, QE2, and now QE3) to stimulate growth.\u00a0 Insofar as this is the most important current monetary policy of the United States&#8217; central bank, it might be good to have a passing familiarity with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third post in the series of articles on real-life facts you need to know for GMAT Critical Reasoning. 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