Suppose that your marginal federal income tax rate is 30%, the sum of your marginal state and local tax rates is 5%, and the yield on a thirty-year corporate bond is 10%
You would be indifferent between buying this corporate bond and buying a thirty-year municipal bond issued within your state (ignoring differences in liquidity, risk, and costs of information) if the municipal bond has a yield of A) 6.5%.
B) 7.0%.
C) 9.5%.
D) 10.0%.
A
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A) MPL × L B) labor share of income × labor productivity × labor C) labor share of income × output D) all of the above E) none of the above
During the Great Depression, one reason the Federal Reserve did not respond forcefully was the "free gold problem," which refers to the idea that ___
a. gold was fleeing Nazi Germany, thus undermining the Fed's attempt to control the money supply b. gold was essentially free because people had excess supplies of currency that could be converted into gold c. the Fed claimed that almost all its gold was tied up by reserve requirements (there was little free so it could not increase the money supply) d. gold was essentially free because silver, which existed in abundance, could be converted into gold at the fixed rate of 16:1