What "incentive" is this article referring to in the first sentence of the excerpt?
What will be an ideal response?
The call option embedded in a callable bond becomes more valuable when issuers expect interest rates to fall. The likelihood of this occurring is greater if interest rates are believed to be high. However, since interest rates have fallen (and even bottomed out), issuers have lost their incentive to issue callable bonds.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Why do governments and defendants enter into plea bargains?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is the first step to legal reasoning in the critical thinking model?
A) stating the relevant rules of law B) looking for evidence of relevant missing information C) analyzing the legal analogies D) stating the facts of the case
Entrapment is an affirmative defense claiming that ________
A) the defendant's mental condition precluded him or her from understanding the wrongful nature of the act committed or from distinguishing wrong from right in general B) the idea for the crime did not originate with the defendant but was put into the defendant's mind by a police officer or other government official C) the defendant was forced to commit the wrongful act by threat of immediate bodily harm or loss of life D) a mistake made by the defendant vitiates criminal intent