Answer
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Explanation
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The step that should taken action of this is to have your co-workers to ask whether if they have an actual evidence of this incident. They should not talk about other employees when they don't even know what the real story behind it and if ever they have anything that they are trouble to, they should seek someone who will be of assistance to them to fix the problem.
Answer:
Market interest rate is also known as nominal interest rate. The nominal interest rate is sum of real interest rate and inflation rate. Fed try to control the monetary condition and real interest rates by manipulating money supply. These interest rates also affect the demand of money in market.
Part (a)
When commission of brokers decreases then buying and selling of stocks becomes easier and cheaper and people would transact in more and more stocks which will decrease the demand of money as liquidity of stock has increased.
Part (b)
When grocery store starts accepting credit cards then people would need to carry less cash and demand of money will decrease.
Part (c)
As financial investors are now worried about riskiness of stocks so they will decrease their investment in stocks and prefer holding more money so demand of money will increase.
Fair trade in smaller territories e.g the carribean islands, support customers in the way that the goods are duty free and exporting and importing is cheaper because no fee is needed for the government of either islands. That's how it works here where I live in the eastern Caribbean.
Overhead rate is calculated by dividing the overhead cost by the direct cost over a similar period of measurement. In our case, the basis is per hour. The overhead cost is the rough estimate of the cost made through the proper reference to the historical data for old establishments and projections for the new ones. This can be expressed as,
overhead rate = (overhead cost / direct cost) x 100%
Substituting the known values,
overhead rate = ($75 / $50) x 100%
overhead rate = 150%
<em>ANSWER: overhead rate = 150% </em>
