Which of the following is true of disposable income?
What will be an ideal response?
It equals consumption expenditures plus saving.
"Disposable income = Personal income - personal taxes"
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a. The GDP Price Index falls, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more negative (or less positive). b. The GDP Price Index rises, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more negative (or less positive). c. The GDP Price Index falls, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more positive (or less negative). d. The GDP Price Index and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending remain the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
Indians and Indian-Americans have played a pivotal role in powering Silicon Valley's digital revolution. The emigration of talented people from countries like India to countries like the United States is often called:
A. credentialism. B. the brain drain. C. Malthusianism. D. outsourcing.
The concentration and HHI reported in the U.S. Bureau of Census must be interpreted with caution since:
A. the definition of product classes used to define an industry affects the results. B. they are based on figures for the entire national market. C. they are calculated by excluding foreign imports, hence they bias upward the degree of concentration. D. All of the answers are correct.
Suppose that you open your own business and earn an accounting profit of $35,000 per year. When you started your business, you left a job that paid you a $30,000 salary annually. Also, suppose that you invested $70,000 of your own funds to start up your
business. If the normal rate of return on capital is 10 percent, your economic profit is A) $5,000. B) -$5,000. C) $2,000. D) -$2,000.