Discover how your economic decisions ripple through local, national, and global economies!
See how spending affects your neighborhood, local businesses, and community.
Understand how decisions impact employment, taxes, and national growth.
Explore international trade, exchange rates, and worldwide economic connections.
When you spend $10 at a local store, that store owner might spend $8 with local suppliers, who spend $6 with other businesses, creating $24 of total economic activity!
Economies go through cycles of growth and slowdown. When people spend more, businesses hire more workers, who then spend more money, creating a positive cycle.
When you buy a phone made in another country, your money flows internationally, affecting exchange rates, employment in other nations, and global supply chains.
Governments collect taxes and spend money on roads, schools, and services. This spending creates jobs and helps money flow through the economy.
When many people want something (high demand) but there's not much available (low supply), prices go up. This affects how money flows through markets.
When there's more money in the economy but the same amount of goods, prices tend to rise. This is called inflation, and it affects everyone's purchasing power.