The Weekend Quiz – June 4-5, 2022

Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.

Quiz #686

  • 1. Government spending which is accompanied by a bond sale to the non-government sector adds less to aggregate demand than would be the case if there was no bond sale.
    • False
    • True
  • 2. If the external balance is always in surplus, then the government can safely run a fiscal surplus and not impede economic growth.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. In a stock-flow consistent macroeconomics, we have to always trace the impact of flows during a period on the relevant stocks at the end of the period. Accordingly, government and private investment spending are two examples of flows that adds to the stock of aggregate spending which in turn impacts on GDP.
    • False
    • True

Sorry, quiz 686 is now closed.

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