Your roommate argues that he can think of no better situation than living in a deflationary economy, as prices of goods and services would continuously fall. You disagree and argue that during a deflation, people can be made worse off because
A) the purchasing power of the currency would decrease.
B) the value of the real interest rate will drop below the nominal interest rate.
C) borrowers will have to pay increasing amounts in real terms over time.
D) the purchasing power of people's incomes would increase.
C
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Refer to the figure below.________ inflation will eventually move the economy pictured in the diagram from short-run equilibrium at point ________ to long-run equilibrium at point ________. 
A. Rising; A B. Falling; A; C C. Falling; B: C D. Rising; A; C
A temporary price differential in resource markets is
a. eliminated by resource movements b. caused by a failure of firms to maximize profits c. eliminated by resources moving from highly-valued uses to lower-valued uses d. caused by Congress increasing the federal minimum wage e. a result of firms using the MRP = MRC rule in hiring resources
Under which conditions might diseconomies of scale result?
A. hampered coordination brought about by bureaucracy B. decreasing costs of inputs C. increasing output prices D. usage of a large amount of indivisible inputs by the firm
Fixed costs include all but
A) a normal rate of return on investment. B) temporary labor. C) property tax on the existing buildings. D) machines that have been producing output.