As the housing bubble collapsed, the cycle of defaults and falling prices began that would ultimately cause home values to:
A. fall by more than 90 percent in the hardest-hit areas.
B. stop rising, practically halting the mortgage loan industry for a number of years.
C. fall by more than 50 percent in the hardest-hit areas.
D. fall by about 25 percent in the hardest-hit areas.
C. fall by more than 50 percent in the hardest-hit areas.
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A) $8. B) $6. C) $4. D) $2.
Suppose that from a new checkable deposit, First National Bank holds two million dollars in vault cash, one million dollars in required reserves, and faces a required reserve ratio of ten percent
Given this information, we can say First National Bank has ________ million dollars in excess reserves. A) one B) two C) nine D) ten
Assume that a firm has measured demand carefully and thinks that the following table accurately displays this. The total cost has been measured and can be given as TC = 20 + Q + Q2, where Q is the level of output. Complete the table and determine the profit-maximizing level of output. OutputTotal RevenueTotal CostProfit1$ 90__________ 2160__________ 3210__________ 4240__________ 5250__________ 6240__________ 7210__________ 8160__________ 9 90__________ 10 0__________
What will be an ideal response?
If a U.S. firm buys stereos from a Japanese firm and the Japanese firm uses the dollars it gets to buy U.S. Treasury bonds, what items are recorded in the U.S. balance of payments accounts?
A. Increase in trade balance; increase in financial account balance B. Decrease in trade balance; increase in financial account balance C. Increase in trade balance; decrease in financial account balance D. Decrease in trade balance; decrease in financial account balance