The organization’s strategic plan you wrote about in Week 2 (Hershey Inc. Cote Divore) calls for an
aggressive growth plan, requiring investment in facilities and equipment, growth in productivity, and
labor over the next five years. It is your responsibility to determine how the U.S economy during this five
year period will impact such an aggressive growth plan. To do so, you should:
Develop a 2,100-word economic outlook forecast that includes the following: Analyze the history of changes in GDP, savings, investment, real interest rates, and
unemployment and compare to forecast for the next five years.
Discuss how government policies can influence economic growth.
Analyze how monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation
rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables.
Describe how trade deficits or surpluses can influence the growth of productivity and GDP.
Discuss the importance of the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency
exchange to the achievement of the strategic plan.
Recommend, based on your above findings, whether the strategic plan can be achieved and
provide support. Use a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed sources from the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
