The third round of quantitative easing, announced in September 2012, was focused on purchases of:
A) short-term Treasury bills
B) long-term Treasury notes
C) long-term Treasury notes and sales of short-term Treasury bills
D) mortgage-backed securities
D
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Consider the following methods of taxing a corporation's income:
a. A flat tax, as opposed to a progressive tax, is levied on corporate profits. b. A system whereby a corporation calculates its annual profit and notifies each shareholder of her portion of the profits. The shareholder would then be required to include this amount as taxable income for her personal income tax. The corporation does not pay a tax. c. A system where the federal government continues to tax corporate income through the corporate income tax but allows individual taxpayers to receive, tax free, corporate dividends and capital gains. Which of the methods above would avoid double taxation? A) a, b, and c B) a and b only C) a and c only D) b and c only
As a group, U.S. consumers have no income response for their consumption of ice cream so that the income elasticity of demand for ice cream equals zero
Does this mean that the change in ice cream consumption that results from a price increase is entirely composed of the substitution effect? A) Yes, the income effect associated with a price change is zero B) No, any price change moves the point of consumption to a new indifference curve, so there must be a non-zero income effect C) No, the income and substitution effects in this case move in opposite directions and completely offset one another, so it only appears that the income effect is zero D) We need more information about the goods to answer this question
According to the equation of exchange, if nominal GDP equals $6 trillion and the money supply equals $1 trillion, the velocity of money: a. must be 6
b. must be 1/6. c. must be 6 trillion. d. must be 1/6 trillion. e. cannot be determined unless we know the price level.
When a demand schedule is drawn as a graph,
a. price is measured on the vertical axis. b. quantity is measured on the horizontal axis. c. the resulting curve has a negative slope. d. the other variables (besides price and quantity) are held constant. e. All of the above are correct.