Answer:
Increase
Explanation:
Population net income consists of the difference between labor income and expenditure. If the government adopts a contractionary fiscal policy, that is, increases taxes, the net income of the population will decrease, since part of the income will be directed to the payment of taxes. For the Fed to compensate for this decline in income, an expansionary monetary policy will have to be adopted, ie the Fed must act to stimulate the population's income. The increase in money supply has the effect of warming the economy in the form of higher demand and higher wages. This is the form of compensation between two different policies, one contractionist and one expansionist.
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The given chart shows the link between interest in a product and the price a consumer pays.
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- The more the interest a person has in a product, the more willing he is to pay any demanded price for the product.
- On the other hand, if a person is not at all interested in a specific product, he would not buy it even if it is available at the cheapest price in the market.
Answer:
D) i and iii
Explanation:
Implicit cost refers to economic costs that are not directly attributed to the business but are nevertheless important in making informed decisions. In this case the opportunity costs are implicit cost. They are:
- Salary forgone which should have been earned at another job, and
- Interest lost from savings account.
This is tough to answer in 3-5 sentences, and tends to also be a heavy identifier of your possible political leanings. You'll have to apologize if some of mine leak out in the response, but this is a question we debate hotly more frequently than every 4 years.
In general, international trade can help increase the GDP and overall profits for US-based corporations. However, if all we do is export, and we don't import, other countries don't look favorably upon that and may heavily tax our goods to counter this.
I believe we do need to be thoughtful about the amounts and kinds of international trade that we engage in. For example, farming is always a hotly debated issue for international trade, in part because farmers in other countries with a dramatically lower cost of living OR farmers in countries with a favorable currency rate (exchange from their currency to our dollars gives them an advantage) can undercut our farmers here in the US, many of whom are already struggling.
There are also those who are worried that when we import produce from countries that have not outlawed pesticides we know are carcinogenic, for instance, this creates not only a disadvantage for US farmers, but also for consumers who may be concerned about health issues.
As another example of this, many countries outlawed import of US beef during the Mad Cow Epidemic. We in turn also placed bans on importing beef from the UK.
These are examples of why it's important to be thoughtful about trade, but there are certainly many others, including decline in production jobs within the US that have left cities like Detroit a ghost town (this was formerly the hub of our automotive industry production).
Answer: 1.50
Explanation:
Isabel's portfolio beta is a weighted average of the individual stock betas.
= Weight of stock A * Stock A beta + Weight of stock B * Stock B beta + Weight of stock n * Stock n beta
= (20% * 0.4) + (30% * 1.2) + ( 25% * 2.5) + (25% * 1.75)
= 0.08 + 0.36 + 0.625 + 0.4375
= 1.5025
= 1.50
