Answer:
a.38%
b. No because the margin is above the requirement at 38%
c.-150%
Explanation:
a.
1000 shares*$40 per share = 40000
margin requirement is 50% so equity = 20000
1 year later price increase to 50
$1000 shares*$50 per share = 50000
dividend = $2*1000 = 2000
margin = 20000/52000 = 38%
b.
No because the margin is above the requirement at 38%
c.
Price of 1000 stock year 1 at 50$/share = 50000
40000 – 50000 = -10000
Rate of return = (-10000 -20000)/20000 = -150%
Answer:
a. The discount rate is the
- interest rate at which banks can borrow reserves from the Federal Reserve.
The discount rate is the interest rate that the FED charges commercial banks, credit unions, or other financial institutions for lending them money.
b. If the Fed were to decrease the discount rate, banks will borrow
- more reserves, causing an increase in lending and the money supply.
Lowering the discount rate is considered part of an expansionary monetary policy since banks will borrow more money and lend more money to the public, increasing the money supply.
Answer:
It helps giving you the ability to choose what you think is best for your business
Explanation:
Vic, using the money tree metaphor is awesome in order to explain. Think about your free enterprise (let’s say… a store that sells trees!).
What you need in order to start and run a business? A place to sell those trees, employees, products, infrastructure, etc., and capital to fund all that. All that business plans and models that you will develop in order to have a successful business will require that you make economic decisions, actions. And, in order to make those decisions, you need economic liberty, which is exactly the ability one has to make economic decisions without political, economic or social blocks.
Imagine that in your region you can only sell trees with red leaves, or your trees are taxed much more than trees coming from overseas, or that employment law requires that no employee gets near a plant (who knows, it could be to prevent allergic season!). That would make super hard to develop your business right?
That’s how economic liberty could help you grow your money tree; into giving you the ability to choose what you think is best for your business.
