Which of the following is an example of an excise tax?
a. a tax on the wages that a firm pays its workers
b. a tax on tobacco
c. a tax on corporate profits
d. the portion of federal income taxes earmarked to pay for Social Security and Medicare
b
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According to the logic of the wage-price spiral, an increase in wages leads to ____________ in ___________, which in turn leads to _______ in _________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The equilibrium rate of interest in the market for money is determined by the intersection of the
A. supply-of-money curve and the asset-demand-for-money curve. B. supply-of-money curve and the total-demand-for-money curve. C. investment-demand curve and the total-demand-for-money curve. D. supply-of-money curve and the transactions-demand-for-money curve.
A perfectly competitive firm in the short-run maximizes its profit by producing the output where:
a. marginal cost equals price. b. marginal cost equals marginal revenue. c. total revenue minus total cost is at a maximum. d. all of these.
As the size of a nation's outstanding debt gets larger and larger relative to the size of the economy:
a. eventually it will become difficult for the country to borrow in global credit markets. b. the country will have to pay higher real interest rates in order to induce investors to purchase its bonds. c. at some point, the country will be more or less forced to bring spending into line with revenues in order to maintain the confidence of investors. d. all of these are correct.