{"id":33593,"date":"2016-05-20T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=33593"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T06:00:05","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-may-21-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=33593","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; May 21-22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWelcome to <strong>The Weekend Quiz<\/strong>, which used to be known as the Saturday Quiz! The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention over the last seven days. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<h4>Quiz #374<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. Mainstream economists use the notion of \"crowding out\" to argue that public spending squeezes out private spending and results in a less efficient allocation of resources overall. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) denies that crowding out can occur.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. A rising government deficit will always allow the private domestic sector to increase its saving in nominal terms.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. If government net spending increases (rising fiscal deficit) then the policy stance is becoming more expansionary and the only risk is that nominal aggregate spending growth might exceed the real capacity of the economy to respond by increasing real output and cause inflation.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 374 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=33591\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Weekend Quiz, which used to be known as the Saturday Quiz! The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention over the last seven days. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturday-quiz","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}