Suppose a bank has $10 million in deposits with no excess reserves, and the reserve requirement is 20%. If the Fed reduces the reserve requirement to 5%, the bank can make a maximum loan of
A) $0.
B) $0.5 million.
C) $1.5 million.
D) $2 million.
C
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A) Figure A only B) Figure D only C) Figures A and C D) Figures A, C, and D E) Figure B only
The above table shows the short-run total product schedule for the campus book store. What is the marginal product (MP) of going from 5 to 6 employees at the book store?
A) 83 books sold B) 13.83 books sold C) 10 books sold D) between 11 and 14 books sold
The philosopher John Rawls argued that if people could make arrangements about how society would be organized before they were born that one of the principles that we would agree upon is that social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so
that they are to be of the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society. What economic strategy sounds akin to this idea? Explain.
The U.S. sugar quota
A) generates government revenue. B) results in net welfare benefits to the U.S. economy. C) results in benefits to sugar producers that exceed the cost to consumers. D) results in costs to consumers that exceed the benefits to sugar producers. E) does not result in an efficiency loss.