| A | B |
| includes food, clothing, housing, and other spending | Individual spending |
| includes buildings, equipment, and inventory items | Business spending |
| includes paying employees and buying supplies and other goods and services. | Government spending |
| includes goods and services that are sold to other countries | Exports minus imports |
| is a country’s total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in one year | GDP |
| the people of the labor force that are unemployed, are looking for work, willing to work, and unable to find work. | Unemployment rate |
| the total wages and salaries plus investment income and government payments to individuals | Personal income |
| the sales of goods and services purchased to indicate the spending patterns | Retail Sales |
| an increase in the general level of prices | Inflation |
| a decrease in the general level of prices | Deflation |
| a number that compares prices in one year with some earlier base year | Consumer Price Index |
| represent the cost of borrowing money | Interest rates |