The real interest rate, business taxes, expected profits and business confidence, and capacity utilization are embedded in the slope of the investment function

When a government imposes a tariff on imported beer, cooperative surplus ________ and society gets ________

A) increases; richer B) increases; poorer C) decreases; richer D) decreases; poorer

Based on the graph showing the run-up of nominal home prices, if a person had wanted to buy a house, hold it for five years, and then sell it for a profit, which of the following years would have been the best to make the purchase in?

a. 1899
b. 1941
c. 1984
d. 2001