Non-redeployable durable assets that are dependent upon unique complementary and perfectly redeployable assets to achieve substantial value-added will typically be organized as

The local banking industry currently has a Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) value of 1945 and two of the competing banks have considered merging. Because the merger would raise the HHI by 155 points, the Federal Trade Commission would likely

A) challenge the merger. B) not challenge the merger. C) allow the merger as long as the HHI did not increase by more than 155 points as promised. D) allow the merger under the condition that the HHI remain at the premerger level of 1875.

Since the War on Poverty was started in 1965, the United States has spent more than $12 trillion on income maintenance programs. The effect has been to

A) reduce poverty levels substantially. B) reduce poverty levels moderately. C) have virtually no effect on poverty levels. D) increase poverty substantially.