Acceleration Principle

Categories: Regulations, Econ, Tax

An economic principle that revolves around the almighty consumer dollar purchasing stuff, then having secondary and tertiary effects. Like if consumers, filled with excess cash from a big tax cut, then rush to Amazon to buy earrings (mostly for ears, but in all kinds of heavy metal weird shapes), then demand for machines to bend those earrings into weird shapes will also increase...as will the firmness of pricing for the underlying steel commodity, and all the other stuff they touch. Essentially, when more dough is sloshing around, everything gets accelerated and the economy heats up under all the friction.

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