00:01
So here we're talking about gdp, right? so if i was just going to fill in the blank here, right, it would be summing the components of national expenditure or something like that, right? i can't see the exact phrase that they've used in that drop -down menu.
00:24
But the idea is that this is called the expenditure.
00:31
Approach, right? we are looking up all the ways in which we spend money, the money we spend on consumption, the money that we spend on investment exports minus the money that we spend on imports, right? because you can't double count that, right? if you buy something from china, that's consumption, but it wasn't produced in america, you can't count that.
00:59
And this is famously summed up by the expression you've seen before, y is equal to c plus i plus g plus x minus m, right? consumption, investment, government spending, exports minus imports.
01:12
In this case, we need to calculate one number.
01:14
It looks like we need to calculate x minus m.
01:17
Well, we're given x, 47 .6...