If economic profit is zero, then a normal profit is earned
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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An economy with an expansionary gap will, in the absence of stabilization policy, eventually experience a(n) ________ in the inflation rate, leading to a(n) ________ in output.
A. decrease; increase B. increase; increase C. decrease; decrease D. increase; decrease
Fresh Flour makes baking flour and sells its flour in 4 pound sacks or bags. The managers of Fresh Flour are considering whether the firm should make or buy the flour sacks. To make the sacks, Fresh Flour needs a $500,000 piece of equipment. Using this equipment, Fresh Flour can make a flour sack for $0.01 and, for simplicity, ignore taxes and assume that the $0.01 cost includes depreciation and
all other costs. Fresh Flour would finance the $500,000 investment using its own funds and, if it purchased the flour sacks from another firm, it would pay $0.19 a flour sack. The life span of the equipment is 10 years and it has no salvage value at the end of the ten years. If the discount rate is 6 percent and the firm needs 400,000 flour sacks a year, what is the present value of the equipment? A) $623,850 B) $459,250 C) $500,962 D) $529,926
In general, fiscal policy is used to:
A. make business cycle booms bigger and busts smaller. B. even out the booms and the busts in the business cycle. C. to reverse the pattern of booms and busts in the business cycle. D. make business cycle booms and busts both bigger.
As of 2015, for income distribution in the United States, the minimum family earnings in the top quintile were nearly ________ times the maximum family earnings in the bottom quintile.
A. 5 B. 10 C. 7 D. 3