The correct answer is <em>D) American firms purchasing industrial equipment from German companies</em>.
The balance of trade is the difference between a nation's exports and imports in a given period. A nation is considered to have a trade surplus when its exports exceed its imports. On the other hand, it is considered to have a trade deficit when its imports exceed its exports.
The United States currently holds a trade deficit. In this case, the purchase of German equipment represents a contribution to the total imports of the United States. Therefore, there is a growth in the trade deficit of the country.
Explanation:
Arguments For and Against Free Trade
Increased Economic Growth. Free trade agreements create larger markets for companies to sell their goods to. ...
Job outsourcing leads to unemployment. ...
Foreign direct investment creates new jobs. ...
Sub-standard working conditions and low wages. ...
Lower prices for consumers. ...
Free trade is bad for the environment.
Answer:
Individual cases can be misleading and result in false generalizations.
Explanation:
One of the major limitation of case study research method is that individual cases cannot be generalized to a wider population and some cases are subjective, which can lead to false generalization. Other limitations are:
Case studies cannot be replicated,
There is a potential risk for researcher bias in case studies, in that the researcher's own beliefs can influence the way the data are collected and analysed,
Qualitative data depend to a large extent on people's perceptions and memory. The reliance on memory when reconstructing the case history could be subject to distortion.
Answer:
The answer is the items at the end of the list.
Explanation:
The student in the example is more likely to remember the items at the end of the list, due to a phenomenon called the recency effect: we will remember best the most recent information. At the same time, this is related to the serial-position effect, which states that the order of the items in a list influences the way we remember them. More specifically, <u>we remember items at the end and the beginning more easily</u>.
The simple reason was because the British needed to pay their debts from the Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) so they taxed the colonies.
