Answer:
The answer is: C) Investment spending by businesses varies inversely with the interest rate.
Explanation:
This statement is true all the time. When a company evaluates the costs and benefits of an investment, interest rate plays a fundamental part in those calculations. The two basic reasons for that are:
- The higher the interest rate a company (or any individual) has to pay for a loan, the harder it is for the company to repay the loan.
- The interest rate a bank charges is usually correlated to the opportunity cost of an investment. The higher the interest rates banks charge, the higher the internal rate of return (which is used to calculate the Net Present Value of an investment) will be. This is because banks don´t print money, they take in deposits and then they loan the money the someone else. So if the interest rate the bank charges is high, usually the interest rates the bank pays for the deposits is also high. Instead of investing, a company might just put their money on the bank and earn a better return rate.
Answer:
C. to invest in stocks and make business decisions
A circular flow economy includes buying and selling between businesses, households, and governments.
The government takes money in through taxes and tariffs, and has expenditures on things like roads, military spending, and other federally funded programs. In this way the government both gives and takes in the economy.
Answer:
All of the answers are correct.
Explanation:
The law of supply states that in a production process when the price of. Commodity increases the suppliers are more willing to supply more goods, while when price falls suppliers tend to supply less goods.
This is as a result of lower motivation to sell at a lower price where profit margins are low. The higher the price the more the profit made so they are more motivated.
Also when prices are too low the suppliers may barely cover their cost of production so they tend to supply less.
Attached is a diagram of the supply curve
Answer:
1. The Fed is an independent government agency ⇒ C. A government agency should not have so much control over the economy because politicians are always going to do anything to win the next election.
The Fed is an independent government agency that pursues the best economic policy for the nation independent of what politicians want.
2. The Fed is overseen by the federal government ⇒ A. The Federal Reserve lacks accountability because no one audits the Fed. There is no way to know what really goes on behind the scenes.
The Federal government however, gets to oversee the Fed to ensure accountability and best practices.
3. The Fed conducts monetary policy through open market operations ⇒ B. The Federal Reserve just prints more money when the economy needs it and gives it to link.
The Fed does not only oversee the printing of money by the Treasury, they also conduct monetary policy through the use of OMO by buying securities when they want money supply to increase and selling when they want a decrease.
