Whoever runs Review Econ, thank you so much! The series of review videos on this channel was the reason I did well on the exam, and I seriously cannot thank you enough.
Your demeaner and way of speaking are both extremely refreshing. Not only is your content informative, but you got a smile on you face while you do it. I aspire to have your charisma, thank you for helping me out.
Got my Macro Exam tomorrow. I was grinding Jacob Clifford to understand forex until I stumbled upon this video. I was lucky to find this, and I might just pull it off tomorrow.
My final is today and tomorrow. We're extra rushed because of a natural disaster early in the year, and I was gone for half this unit and some other ones for health. You're a godsend bro!!
i binged your videos for the past 4 days. last friday i watched micro u1 and u2, saturday i watched micro u3 u4 u5 and u6, yesterday i watched macro u2 and u3, today i finished macro with u4 u5 and u6. thank you for helping me with my ap prep, and i really appreciate the flashcards and MCQs on your website.
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Thank you so much I was struggling with unit 6 but this made it a lot clearer! I do have a question, when there is a change in interest rates, will that always result in a double shift of both supply and demand? And is there any effect on the graph for the market of the other currency?
Interest rate changes are a double shift in the ForEx market, but the CB has only required one shift on exams. They tell you which curve to shift, or they will accept either shift. Also when one currency has a demand shift, the supply of the other currency will shift the same direction (because when you demand one currency you supply the other) and when there is a supply shift, the demand of the other currency will shift the same direction (because when you supply one currency you demand the other). Good luck on the exam!
hi again! would u be able to go over some long and short frqs for micro and macro? like would u be able to walk us through how to do them and what our thought process should be? thanks again for all the helpful material!
Here you go: www.reviewecon.com/macro-frq Just be aware these FRQ videos are from before ample reserves were added to the exam so anything about unit 4 might be a bit different now. You can also search for "reviewecon unboxing" to see how approached the last few years' FRQs right when they were released (before the rubrics were released).
Not part of the AP exam, but it's actually dual entry accounting. When $100 dollars (for example) leaves our country to purchase imports, it is counted as we sold $100 worth of assets (the dollars are the asset) in the Capital and Financial account. So they automatically always balance out. 😄
Hi, I also have another question in regards to interest rates (they keep confusing me hahaha) -- again, you mentioned that an increase in interest rates would incentivize foreign investors, and result in capital inflow as they purchase bonds. But wouldn't this go against the inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices, as bonds would be desired less? And I thought that higher interest rates would result in less gross investment.
When interest rates increase, "already issued" bond prices will decrease. That's because already issued bonds pay the previous lower interest rate. The higher interest rate means that any money put in bonds earns a higher yield which is why financial Capital flows into the economy with higher interest rates. That happens even if bond prices (previously issued bonds) are falling due to the higher interest rates. I hope that helps!
At 3:40 you said that an increase in interest rate will increase capital inflow. Wouldn't a higher interest rate decrease gross investment as we saw in unit 4?
That is correct. This is where the distinction between foreign investment and domestic investment is important. Domestic investment (gross investment) is primarily businesses buying physical capital. Businesses borrow money to buy physical capital so they pay interest. As a result, lower interest means more gross investment. Foreign investment on the other hand is people in other countries saving money in domestic banks. Those foreign investors get paid interest. As a result, higher interest rates mean greater foreign investment. The capital inflow is foreign investors seeking high interest rates. In the loanable funds market, business investment is in the demand curve, while foreign investment is in the supply curve. I hope that helps!
I have a question around 3:40 and the interest rates. You said that when interest rates increase in the US, foreign investors will look to invest in the US, increasing capital inflow. I am unsure why foreign investors will invest in the US when interest rates increase. When interest rates increase, doesn't investment decrease because less people are willing to borrow?
I'm not Review Econ but think about it. If you have extra money and you want to earn interest with it by putting it in a savings account or buying a bond or doing anything that would earn interest wouldn't you like to earn the highest interest rate possible? If you live in Spain and the interest rates is 5%, but in the U.S. its 7%, then, all things being equal, the opportunity to earn interest in the US is more attractive and so capital flow to the US increases. Remember, you are the lender in this scenario, not the borrower. As the lender you want a high interest rate.
When you hear "investment" in AP macro, that usually means purchases of physical where business owners pay the interest. And they love lower interest rates and invest more with lower rates. You definitely get that part. But... And here is what's happening in this question. Foreign investment means foreign people saving their money in domestic banks and bond markets. Foreign investors get PAID that interest. So, foreign investors seek higher interest rates.
Why does the supply for currency slope upwards in the foreign exchange market graph? From my understanding, when the supply of a currency increases, the currency should depreciate as there's more of the currency, and similarly when supply of a currency decreases, the currency should appreciate. Why does the graph show the opposite of that?
I believe you are confusing cause and effect. When supply increases (shifts to the right) the currency depreciates (the equilibrium exchange rate found at the supply and demand intersection). But the upward sloping supply reverses the cause and effect. When the currency appreciates there is an increase in the quantity supplied (not a shift of the curve but movement up the curve). That means more currency trades are willing to sell them currency when its price increases. This distinction between supply and quantity supplied is important and comes from unit one of AP macro. I hope that helps!
That is an increase in the supply of the foreign currency (there would be a decrease in the supply of domestic currency with higher rates). That is because foreign investors seek higher rates so they supply their currency (Pesos here) as they demand our currency (dollars). I hope that helps!
@@myplace571 yes! In the foreign US Dollar exchange market, US citizens are suppliers and foreign citizens are demanders. For the Mexican Peso ForEx market, US citizens are demanders while Mexican citizens are suppliers.
If a country's imports exceeds its exports, would its national debt increase? I ask this because a scoring guide on an AP Classroom question states "A country's national debt is not affected by its trade deficit or surplus" but I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just confused about what makes up national debt.
The national debt is the sum of all previous deficits and surpluses for a nation's government. A government has a deficit when taxes are less than government spending. A government has a surplus when taxes are greater than government spending. Imports and exports are not parts of the calculation of the budget surplus or budget deficit. But, you may see the term trade deficit or trade surplus on the AP exam. A trade deficit occurs when imports are greater than exports and a trade surplus occurs when imports are less than exports. So when you see the term surplus or deficit it could be talking about trade deficit or government budget deficit. So read the question carefully! Good luck on your exams!
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Yes! If Mexican investors want to earn high interest in US banks (or bond markets), they need dollars to do it. That means Mexican investors sell (supply) pesos and buy (demand) dollars. So we see an increase in the supply of pesos and an increase in the demand for dollars. I hope that helps! Good luck tomorrow!
Two misspelled word in the description. corrections below. (current account as well as capital and financial account), Foreign exchange markets, capital inflows and outflows, balance on trade, etc.
The graph is not the supply and demand of goods, but the supply and demand for currency. When US income decreases (the x axis of the AS/AD model), we buy less of everything including goods made in Mexico. Since US demand for Mexican made goods decreases, that means US consumers supply fewer US dollars to the US dollar ForEx market and demand fewer Mexican Pesos in the Mexican Peso ForEx market. I hope that helps! Good luck on your exams!
@@ReviewEcon so the demand for a currency is independent of the people in that currency’s country, and is solely dependent on foreign countries? and the supply of a currency is solely dependent on the people in that currency’s country?
@@user-th8pr7no5p correct. Domestic consumers are suppliers of domestic currency and the demanders of foreign currency. Foreign consumers are suppliers of foreign currency and demanders of domestic currency.
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Got my Macro Exam tomorrow. I was grinding Jacob Clifford to understand forex until I stumbled upon this video. I was lucky to find this, and I might just pull it off tomorrow.
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@@kavybaby I wondering the same thing but his comment was from 2 years ago lol
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Good luck with your finals and continued recovery from the natural disaster!
i binged your videos for the past 4 days. last friday i watched micro u1 and u2, saturday i watched micro u3 u4 u5 and u6, yesterday i watched macro u2 and u3, today i finished macro with u4 u5 and u6. thank you for helping me with my ap prep, and i really appreciate the flashcards and MCQs on your website.
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Thank you so much I was struggling with unit 6 but this made it a lot clearer! I do have a question, when there is a change in interest rates, will that always result in a double shift of both supply and demand? And is there any effect on the graph for the market of the other currency?
Interest rate changes are a double shift in the ForEx market, but the CB has only required one shift on exams. They tell you which curve to shift, or they will accept either shift.
Also when one currency has a demand shift, the supply of the other currency will shift the same direction (because when you demand one currency you supply the other) and when there is a supply shift, the demand of the other currency will shift the same direction (because when you supply one currency you demand the other).
Good luck on the exam!
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Cramming all these videos before Thursday
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Got my exam tomorrow, thx for the help!
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hi again! would u be able to go over some long and short frqs for micro and macro? like would u be able to walk us through how to do them and what our thought process should be? thanks again for all the helpful material!
Here you go:
www.reviewecon.com/macro-frq
Just be aware these FRQ videos are from before ample reserves were added to the exam so anything about unit 4 might be a bit different now. You can also search for "reviewecon unboxing" to see how approached the last few years' FRQs right when they were released (before the rubrics were released).
@@ReviewEcon thanks so much!!
Thanks a lot, I prolly got a good score on the exam today.
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If the CA + CFA = 0, how does the CFA increase to balance out the equation, for example, when net exports decrease (CA goes down)? Thank you!
Not part of the AP exam, but it's actually dual entry accounting. When $100 dollars (for example) leaves our country to purchase imports, it is counted as we sold $100 worth of assets (the dollars are the asset) in the Capital and Financial account. So they automatically always balance out. 😄
@@ReviewEcon Ah okay, that makes sense. Thank you and also love the content!
Hi, I also have another question in regards to interest rates (they keep confusing me hahaha) -- again, you mentioned that an increase in interest rates would incentivize foreign investors, and result in capital inflow as they purchase bonds. But wouldn't this go against the inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices, as bonds would be desired less? And I thought that higher interest rates would result in less gross investment.
When interest rates increase, "already issued" bond prices will decrease. That's because already issued bonds pay the previous lower interest rate. The higher interest rate means that any money put in bonds earns a higher yield which is why financial Capital flows into the economy with higher interest rates. That happens even if bond prices (previously issued bonds) are falling due to the higher interest rates.
I hope that helps!
At 3:40 you said that an increase in interest rate will increase capital inflow. Wouldn't a higher interest rate decrease gross investment as we saw in unit 4?
That is correct.
This is where the distinction between foreign investment and domestic investment is important. Domestic investment (gross investment) is primarily businesses buying physical capital. Businesses borrow money to buy physical capital so they pay interest. As a result, lower interest means more gross investment.
Foreign investment on the other hand is people in other countries saving money in domestic banks. Those foreign investors get paid interest. As a result, higher interest rates mean greater foreign investment. The capital inflow is foreign investors seeking high interest rates.
In the loanable funds market, business investment is in the demand curve, while foreign investment is in the supply curve.
I hope that helps!
@@ReviewEcon It does, thank you!!
I have a question around 3:40 and the interest rates. You said that when interest rates increase in the US, foreign investors will look to invest in the US, increasing capital inflow. I am unsure why foreign investors will invest in the US when interest rates increase. When interest rates increase, doesn't investment decrease because less people are willing to borrow?
I'm not Review Econ but think about it. If you have extra money and you want to earn interest with it by putting it in a savings account or buying a bond or doing anything that would earn interest wouldn't you like to earn the highest interest rate possible? If you live in Spain and the interest rates is 5%, but in the U.S. its 7%, then, all things being equal, the opportunity to earn interest in the US is more attractive and so capital flow to the US increases.
Remember, you are the lender in this scenario, not the borrower. As the lender you want a high interest rate.
When you hear "investment" in AP macro, that usually means purchases of physical where business owners pay the interest. And they love lower interest rates and invest more with lower rates. You definitely get that part.
But... And here is what's happening in this question. Foreign investment means foreign people saving their money in domestic banks and bond markets. Foreign investors get PAID that interest. So, foreign investors seek higher interest rates.
Time to lock in
Good luck!
Is it the nominal interest rates or the real interest rates that affect the foreign exchange market?
For the purposes of the AP exam, either one. Your teacher or professor may have a specific way of looking at it though.
Thank you for this review! It was very helpful :)
I'm so glad! You're welcome!
So does that mean an increase interest rate decreases domestic investment but increases foreign investment?
Correct!
@@ReviewEcon can you also explain how increase interest rate leads to increase in budget deficit
Thanks for the help, I'm sure I'll ace my exam!
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Why does the supply for currency slope upwards in the foreign exchange market graph? From my understanding, when the supply of a currency increases, the currency should depreciate as there's more of the currency, and similarly when supply of a currency decreases, the currency should appreciate. Why does the graph show the opposite of that?
I believe you are confusing cause and effect. When supply increases (shifts to the right) the currency depreciates (the equilibrium exchange rate found at the supply and demand intersection). But the upward sloping supply reverses the cause and effect. When the currency appreciates there is an increase in the quantity supplied (not a shift of the curve but movement up the curve). That means more currency trades are willing to sell them currency when its price increases.
This distinction between supply and quantity supplied is important and comes from unit one of AP macro.
I hope that helps!
question, 10:15 why does the supply curve shift right when theres capital outflow?
That is an increase in the supply of the foreign currency (there would be a decrease in the supply of domestic currency with higher rates). That is because foreign investors seek higher rates so they supply their currency (Pesos here) as they demand our currency (dollars).
I hope that helps!
@@ReviewEcon so in this context supply means to give up or give away?
@@myplace571 yes!
In the foreign US Dollar exchange market, US citizens are suppliers and foreign citizens are demanders. For the Mexican Peso ForEx market, US citizens are demanders while Mexican citizens are suppliers.
@@ReviewEcon alright thank you!
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Good luck tomorrow!
If a country's imports exceeds its exports, would its national debt increase? I ask this because a scoring guide on an AP Classroom question states "A country's national debt is not affected by its trade deficit or surplus" but I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just confused about what makes up national debt.
The national debt is the sum of all previous deficits and surpluses for a nation's government. A government has a deficit when taxes are less than government spending. A government has a surplus when taxes are greater than government spending. Imports and exports are not parts of the calculation of the budget surplus or budget deficit.
But, you may see the term trade deficit or trade surplus on the AP exam. A trade deficit occurs when imports are greater than exports and a trade surplus occurs when imports are less than exports.
So when you see the term surplus or deficit it could be talking about trade deficit or government budget deficit. So read the question carefully! Good luck on your exams!
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10:05 So the supply of pesos increases because the Mexican investors need more money to invest in America?
Yes! If Mexican investors want to earn high interest in US banks (or bond markets), they need dollars to do it. That means Mexican investors sell (supply) pesos and buy (demand) dollars. So we see an increase in the supply of pesos and an increase in the demand for dollars.
I hope that helps! Good luck tomorrow!
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Two misspelled word in the description. corrections below.
(current account as well as capital and financial account), Foreign exchange markets, capital inflows and outflows, balance on trade, etc.
Thank you! I'll fix those soon!
9:26, did you mean to say equilibrium exchange rate?
Yes! Exchange rate, not interest rate!
I'll make an edit to make that more clear. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
@@ReviewEcon you can make an edit after you post it? How do you do that?
@@averageytwatcher2060 done now. 😀
I just edited out the words "interest rate" so it just says the equilibrium plummets.
RUclips studio has a simple video editor to allow you to cut things out without posting a new video.
why did a decrease in supply of american goods lead to a decrease in demand for the goods in mexico? at 8:46
The graph is not the supply and demand of goods, but the supply and demand for currency.
When US income decreases (the x axis of the AS/AD model), we buy less of everything including goods made in Mexico. Since US demand for Mexican made goods decreases, that means US consumers supply fewer US dollars to the US dollar ForEx market and demand fewer Mexican Pesos in the Mexican Peso ForEx market.
I hope that helps! Good luck on your exams!
@@ReviewEcon so the demand for a currency is independent of the people in that currency’s country, and is solely dependent on foreign countries? and the supply of a currency is solely dependent on the people in that currency’s country?
@@user-th8pr7no5p correct. Domestic consumers are suppliers of domestic currency and the demanders of foreign currency. Foreign consumers are suppliers of foreign currency and demanders of domestic currency.
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Exchange rates show up ever now and again. Good luck on the exam!
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