{"id":33886,"date":"2016-06-24T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=33886"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:00:33","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-june-25-26-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=33886","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; June 25-26, 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 #379<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. The more public debt a sovereign government voluntarily issues to match its fiscal deficits:<\/li><ul><li>the less is the volume of investment funds in the non-government sector that can be used for other investments.<\/li><li>the greater is non-government wealth held in the form of public debt.<\/li><li>the more difficult it is for banks to attract deposits to initiate loans from.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. When an external deficit and public deficit coincide, there must be a private sector deficit, which means that governments can only really run fiscal deficits safely to support a private sector surplus, when net exports are strong.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. In a standard fixed coupon government bond auction, the higher is the demand for the bonds:<\/li><ul><li>the lower will be the yields on the issued bond, which tells us nothing about the effect of  fiscal deficits on short-term interest rates.<\/li><li>the lower will be the yields on the issued bond, suggesting that higher fiscal deficits drive short-term interest rates down.<\/li><li>the higher will be the yields on the issued bond, suggesting higher fiscal deficits drive short-term interest rates down.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 379 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=33884\">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-33886","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\/33886","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=33886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}