The Economist magazine's Commodities Price Index tracks the prices of the most:
A. important finished goods that are traded internationally.
B. important minerals that are traded internationally.
C. important productive resources that are traded internationally.
D. heavily traded agricultural-based products.
Answer: C
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Which of the following factors help to explain the sustained increases in health care spending in the United States, and which do not?
a. the additional paperwork, duplication, and waste generated in the U.S. health care system compared to systems in other countries b. the increasing costs of malpractice insurance and malpractice lawsuit settlements c. the number of uninsured patients receiving hospital treatment that could have been performed at a lower cost in doctors' offices d. the slow growth in labor productivity in health care compared to that in the economy as a whole e. the aging population f. increases in the cost of providing health care
The efficient markets hypothesis implies that future changes in exchange rates should for all practical purposes be
A) unpredictable. B) set by each country. C) increasing. D) pegged to a standard such as the U.S. dollar or the Euro.
The ownership of radios increased from ___ percent in 1920 to ___ percent in 1930
a. 10; 70 b. 5;10 c. less than one; 40 d. Radio was not popularized beyond hobbyists until the 1930s
The leverage ratio is calculated as
a. assets minus liabilities. b. assets divided by bank capital c. the reciprocal of the required reserve ratio d. the required reserve ratio multiplied by bank capital.