If the price of monthly satellite TV service increases from $40 to $50, the percentage change is:
A. 5 percent.
B. 20 percent.
C. 25 percent.
D. 45 percent.
Answer: C
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The MNC sells the output at home for $8, and its cost of producing inputs is $1 . It pays a profit tax of 20% at home on repatriated profits. What is the subsidiary net profit? Assume no selling costs at home. What is the MNC's total profit from the operation?
Identify the correct statement
a. The removal of financial market regulations has lowered the probability of a financial crisis to zero. b. Investment in residential housing in the U.S. was less volatile during the era prior to the removal of Regulation Q. c. Investment in residential housing in the U.S. was more volatile after the removal of Regulation Q. d. The removal of financial market regulations lowered output volatility. e. The removal of financial market regulations increased variability in consumer spending.
If the CPI overstates the true rate of inflation, then
a. the economy will grow more slowly than if inflation was measured accurately b. the economy will grow more rapidly than if inflation was measured accurately c. social security payments will increase in real terms d. social security payments will decrease in real terms e. so will other means of measuring the inflation rate
The vicious circle of poverty refers to a condition where
a. people are poor because they cannot invest in capital goods and they cannot invest in capital goods because they are poor b. people who borrow money at high interest rates can never get out from under the indebtedness created c. people invest in unprofitable projects and keep pouring loanable funds into those projects in the hope of salvaging them d. people prefer consumption goods to capital goods so there are insufficient capital goods to propel the economy out of poverty e. poverty is relative and poor people remain poor because the wealthy grow wealthier