If the CPI was 228 at the end of 2007 and 236 at the end of 2008, what was the inflation rate in 2008?
A) 236 percent
B) 3.5 percent
C) 8 percent
D) 4 percent
E) 3.4 percent
B) 3.5 percent
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a. countries with relatively low saving to income ratios have relatively high investment to income ratios. b. there is no correlation between investment and saving in developed countries. c. countries with a high ratio of saving to income have high ratios of investment to income. d. Both a and b
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What will be an ideal response?
Behavioral game theory assumes
A) people act rationally. B) people are subject to biases that cause them to act irrationally. C) that people behave differently when playing games than when "playing for real." D) people optimize using all available information.
People who are willing and able to work but are not looking for work because they have been discouraged by their previous futile efforts are called
A) unemployed workers. B) discouraged workers. C) unhappy workers. D) involuntarily unemployed. E) part-time lookers.