If you have a mortgage on your house at 6 percent and the inflation rate when the mortgage was acquired was 3 percent but has since increased and is now 8 percent per year; the current real interest rate is
A) -2 percent per year.
B) 8 percent per year.
C) 6 percent per year.
D) 0 percent per year.
E) 14 percent per year.
A
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If you expect that the economy is headed for a long recession, you would advise people to look for jobs in an industry with A) a "low" negative income elasticity coefficient such as -0.2. B) a high positive income elasticity coefficient such as 5. C) a low positive income elasticity coefficient such as 0.8. D) a "high" negative income elasticity coefficient such as -4.
If you deposit $100 of currency into a demand deposit at a bank, this action by itself
a. does not change the money supply. b. increases the money supply. c. decreases the money supply. d. has an indeterminate effect on the money supply.