The Conference Board does a good job predicting recessions for reasons that include ________
A) a focus on fewer than five leading variables
B) exclusive use of real-time data
C) revisions of the components of its monthly index
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
C
You might also like to view...
Consumption is $5 million, planned investment spending is $8 million, government purchases are $10 million, and net exports are equal to $2 million. If GDP during that same time period is equal to $27 million, what unplanned changes in inventories occurred?
a. There was an unplanned increase in inventories equal to $2 million. b. There was no unplanned change in inventories. c. There was an unplanned decrease in inventories equal to $2 million. d. There was an unplanned decrease in inventories equal to $19 million.
A lower price level causes the C + I + G + X curve to shift as a result of a change in all the following EXCEPT
A) an increase in real wealth. B) an increase in foreign spending on domestic goods. C) an increase in aggregate supply. D) a decrease in interest rates.
If lower-income households spend a greater share of their income on cigarettes than do higher-income households, then a tax that raises the price of cigarettes will
A) cause lower-income households to incur a greater loss of consumer surplus than that incurred by higher-income households. B) cause higher-income households to incur a greater loss of consumer surplus than that incurred by lower-income households. C) raise consumer surplus among higher-income households. D) cause consumer surplus to decline among smokers, but the relative impact cannot be determined from the given information.
The principle that states the marginal product of an input decreases as the quantity of the input increases is called:
A. diminishing marginal product. B. increasing rate of return. C. production function. D. total product optimization.