economic affairs
Money and trade
Economic affairs refers to matters concerning the production, distribution, and management of wealth and resources—finance, trade, employment, taxation, and monetary policy.
The phrase appears most often in governmental and institutional contexts: the Minister of Economic Affairs, a committee on economic affairs.
It frames economics as a domain requiring organized attention and administration.
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
- trade balanceExport-import surplus or deficit
- free tradeUnrestricted international exchange
- stock marketSecurities trading venue
taxation · fiscal policy · subsidies · bond market · trade agreements · trade war · inflation · cost of living · bread and butter · public goods · national debt · monetary policy · budget deficits · rainy day fund · opportunity cost · bottom line · labor market · boom and bust
- affairs
- UN portfoliosmanagement, disarmament, peacekeeping, counter-terrorism, public information
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
- German governmentBundestag, Bundesrat, executive, legislative, judicial
- Commerce DepartmentNOAA, USPTO, commerce secretary, National Weather Service, patents
- legislative committeesstanding committees, select committees, special committees, joint committees, subcommittees
economic affairsforeign affairs
Cross-border governmental dealings
social affairs · military affairs · domestic affairs · defense policy · diplomatic relations
economic affairsprivate life
One's nonpublic existence
inner life · spiritual life · spiritual well-being · religious devotion · artistic pursuits
economic, economics, economical, economically, economy, economies, economist, economists, economize