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During the last half of 2008, the Fed seemed to take "baby steps" in reducing the federal-funds rate target, before finally lowe

emmasim [6.3K]

Answer:

Why can't the Fed push the rate any lower than zero?

Real interest rates can be lower than zero, or negative (because inflation rate is higher than interest rate), but nominal interest rates are generally only limited to zero. But during this same time, the European Central Bank actually started paying negative interest rates on money deposits and many European private banks followed. That means that they charged people for having their money on the bank.

Why do you think that the Fed was so seemingly reluctant to push the rate all the way to the floor?

The reason why the Fed was not willing to push the interest rates to zero or even below zero was that by doing so, the US dollar would have depreciated or lost value. In Europe this was done to encourage people to spend their money and not save as much, but in the US that is not really a problem. Generally in the US the problem is that people spend too much and save too little, but on some European countries and Japan, people tend to save too much. For example in Japan the national savings rate fluctuates between 22-40%, while the maximum savings rate in the US has been 10.4% in 1960, it currently is around 7.6%.

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3 years ago

Steve went to his favorite hamburger restaurant with $3, expecting to buy a $2 hamburger and a $1 soda. when he arrived he disco

inysia [295]

The answer is The income effect.
Income effect is described as the change in demand of a service or good brought on by change in the income of a consumer.It is observed in two cases first is when income of person increases and second is when price of goods or service decreases.
The scenario given in the question is an example of second case as the price of burger was less than normal Steve perceived his income to be able to buy more product in same price

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3 years ago

________ now command about 45 percent of all retail sales in the united states. factory outlets joint agreements franchises acqu

butalik [34]

___ now command about 45 percent of all retail sales in the United States.

Franchises

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3 years ago

Sheffield Corp. sold $120000 of goods and accepted the customer's $120000 8%, 1-year note receivable in exchange. Assuming 8% ap

svetlana [45]

Answer:

The journal entry to record the sale :

Debit : Note Receivable $120000

Credit : Sales Revenue $120000

Explanation:

The journal entry to record the sale includes a Debit entry of a Note Receivable at the amount owed by the customer since there was no immediate payment of cash and a Credit entry of Sales Revenue to recognize Income earned.

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2 years ago

Swiss Group reports net income of $40,000 for 2019. At the beginning of 2019, Swiss Group had $200,000 in assets. By the end of

Sati [7]

Answer:

For the tear 2019, net income is 40,000

Beginning of the year 2019, asset of the S are 200,000

Ending of the year 2019, asset of the S are 300,000

Average asset for 2019= Beginning assets + Closing assets / 2

Average asset for 2019= 200,000 + 300,000 / 2

Average asset for 2019= $250,000

Return on assets = Net income / Average assets * 100%

= 40,000 / 250,000 * 100

=16%

Thus, the return on assets is 16%

Conclusion: If the average return of assets of the competitors are 11%, It means S uses the assets efficient manner, so performance of the S is very good ad return of the S is higher than competitors on asset

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3 years ago