The maximum amount of money that company shareholders can lose on their investment in the corporation is:
A. whatever percent of their wealth equals their percent of ownership.
B. whatever they paid for the shares in the company.
C. whatever the corporation loses each year times the percent of ownership in the company.
D. zero.
B. whatever they paid for the shares in the company.
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Each month the CPI is calculated by
A) recording the new prices and making no other calculation. B) multiplying the current cost of the CPI market basket by the base period cost and then dividing by 100. C) subtracting the base period cost of the CPI market basket from the current cost and then dividing by 100. D) dividing the current cost of the CPI market basket by the base period cost and then multiplying by 100. E) subtracting the current period cost of the CPI market basket from the base period cost and then multiplying by 100.
The formula for calculating the CPI is
A) (Expenditures in the current year × Expenditures in the base year)/100. B) (Expenditures in the base year/Expenditures in the current year). C) (Expenditures in the base year × 100)/(Expenditures in the current year). D) (Expenditures in the current year/Expenditures in the base year) × 100.
Social Security provides incentive for individuals to
(a) save more than they consume during their working years. (b) manage their assets privately in order to prepare to live on principal and interest during retirement. (c) rely on transfer payments made by the working class to them during retirement. (d) carefully manage their private retirement portfolios and use the income earned to consume and save during retirement.
Alex must prepare for exams in both biology and economics this week. Assume that the production possibilities curve showing the tradeoff between exam scores in biology and economics is concave toward the origin. As Alex moves along the curve spending more of his time studying for economics, the opportunity cost of an hour of preparation for economics: a. increases
b. remains constant. c. decreases. d. first increases then decreases.