The inflation rate you are likely to hear on the nightly news is calculated from
a. the GDP deflator.
b. the CPI.
c. the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
d. the unemployment rate.
b
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Your boss explains to you that the total fixed costs of the company are $1 million. He also informs you that each unit of production will cost twenty five cents more with each 100-unit increase
He has asked you to draw the fixed costs of the company with costs on the vertical axis and quantity of goods sold on the horizontal axis. Without drawing a graph tell your boss what the graph will look like using words. What information did your boss give you that you didn't need in order to draw the graph?
In a frictionless world
A) Fully funded social security must necessarily make everyone better off, as it provides for retirement. B) Fully-funded social security is a constraint on private saving behavior, and therefore cannot make anyone better off. C) Fully funded social security is always preferred to pay-as-you-go social security. D) Fully funded social security is more efficient, because it is a private program instead of a government program.
Explain how it would be possible for the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity to both increase in the market for motorcycles if consumer preference for motorcycles increases and the number of motorcycle manufacturers decreases
What will be an ideal response?
Suppose technical change permits cable television companies to provide their services at lower rates. The share-the-gains, share-the-pains theory would predict that the regulators would
A) permit the firms to keep the savings and would lower prices only if the firms were pressured to do so. B) force the firms to pass all the savings on to consumers in the form of lower prices. C) force the firms to pass the savings on to consumers in the form of better service. D) force the firms to pass some of the savings on to consumers and to permit the firms to keep some of the savings themselves.