The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures demand deposit accounts so that, in the event of a bank failure, depositors will not lose any money
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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Market systems are often referred to as "automatic" or "self-regulating" because they function
A) effectively even when no participant in the system plans ahead. B) effectively in the absence of any laws. C) effectively even when the society is breaking down. D) without an overall, comprehensive plan. E) without the intervention of human beings.
We would not expect a Japanese financial asset and a U.S. financial asset with identical risk, liquidity, and information characteristics to have different expected returns because
A) the U.S. and Japanese governments have pledged themselves to avoid this outcome. B) traders would buy the asset with the higher expected yield and sell the asset with the lower expected yield until the yields were brought into equality. C) traders would sell the asset with the higher expected yield and buy the asset with the lower expected yield until the yields were brought into equality. D) the exchange rate between the dollar and the yen would adjust automatically to eliminate any difference in yields.
A popular entertainer gives a concert in a 50,000 seat stadium. To give her fans a break, she charges only $50 a seat instead of the customary $75 a seat
At $75 a ticket, there would have been 50,000 tickets sold, and at $50, there are 80,000 people who want tickets. As a consequence of the generosity of the entertainer A) her fans are made better off. B) a more fair system of pricing the tickets has been found. C) another type of system will have to be found to allocate the tickets, making some of her fans better off and others worse off. D) her fans are made worse off since there is an excess demand of 30,000 tickets.
The Bretton Woods system:
a. allowed for market-determined exchange rates. b. ended the use of the gold standard in all participating countries. c. led to a dramatic increase in the U.S. balance of payments deficit. d. resulted in the rapid increase of the U.S. gold supply in the 1960s. e. All of the above.