The price of an item can rise or fall
Answer:
a. not change; improve
Explanation:
Balance of trade is the difference in value over a period of time between a country’s imports and exports of goods and services, usually expressed in the unit of currency of a particular country (e.g., dollars for the United States, yen for the Japan).
Balance of payments record the receipts and payments of the residents of the country in their transactions with residents of other countries.
A Japanese insurance company purchases U.S. government securities. From the perspective of the United States, the balance of trade with Japan will not change and the balance of payments with Japan will improve.
Term total utility: The utility is the satisfaction that an individual derives from consuming a good or service. Similarly, total utility is the total satisfaction received from consuming a given total quantity of a good or service.
Marginal utility: Marginal utility is the added satisfaction a consumer gets from having one more unit of a good or service. The concept of marginal utility is used by economists to determine how much of an item consumers are willing to purchase. ... Marginal utility can be positive, zero, or negative.
