The government's profit from issuing fiat money is known as

A) seigniorage.
B) menu costs.
C) commodity profit.
D) tax distortions.


A

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A market is said to "clear" when

A) sellers give up selling their goods because they can't find any buyers. B) buyers and sellers are able to buy and sell as much as they want at the market price. C) the government decides to shut it down. D) sellers run out of goods to sell.

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In a perfectly competitive resource market the labor supply curve facing the single firm is

A) vertical. B) horizontal. C) downward-sloping. D) upward-sloping.

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a. Telephone company. b. Electric company. c. Water company. d. All of these.

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