Social Security spending and Medicare spending are all financed with revenues held in trust funds

Suppose that you have wheat in storage and that the price of wheat is currently $7.00 per bushel. You can sell your wheat immediately but you also have an opportunity to sell in six months. At that time, you believe the price of wheat will be $8.00 per bushel. Your cost of storage is $0.75 per bushel for six months. One dollar in six months is worth one dollar today (no time preference). What strategy is profit maximizing?

A. Hold onto your wheat and sell in six months. B. Sell your wheat today. C. Minimize your losses by exiting the wheat market. D. Expand production to sell more wheat.

Which is not characteristic of a centrally planned economy?

a. The central government owns all land and capital. b. The central government makes all economic decisions. c. Each collective or factory sets its own goals. e. Each person is assigned a job.