The self-correcting tendency of the economy means that rising inflation eventually eliminates:
A. unemployment.
B. exogenous spending.
C. recessionary gaps.
D. expansionary gaps.
Answer: D
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A) the price; income B) the quantity demanded; income C) income; the quantity demanded D) income; the price
The reminiscences of two famous people who were born into slavery, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, include all of the following except
(a) The common custom among slave owners was to ensure that small children of slaves had the nurturing of both parents until they reached good working age. (b) Their early years were not very different from thousands of other slave children. (c) Their fathers were white men. (d) They saw their mothers infrequently, only a few times in their lives, or only sometimes in the early morning hours before their mothers went to work or late at night.
Personal consumption expenditures include:
a. all commodities that business firms buy. b. the purchase prices paid for stocks and bonds by individual households. c. the construction of residential housing. d. all goods and services bought by households. e. the corrected value of housewives' services.
A monopolist earns $80 million annually and will maintain that level of profit indefinitely, provided no other firm enters the market. If another firm successfully enters the market, the incumbent's profits remain at $80 million the first period, but fall to $35 million annually thereafter. The opportunity cost of funds is 20 percent, and profits in each period are realized at the beginning of each period. If the monopolist can earn $45 million indefinitely by limit pricing, should it do so?
A. No, it will earn $270 million in present value if it does this. B. No, it will earn $225 million in present value if it does this. C. Yes, it will earn $270 million in present value if it does this. D. Yes, it will earn $225 million in present value if it does this.