{"id":34523,"date":"2016-09-30T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=34523"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:13","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-october-1-2-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=34523","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; October 1-2, 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 or not to the blogs I post. 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 #393<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. When the IMF and the OECD talk about structural fiscal deficits, you know their estimates are:<\/li><ul><li>biased downwards thus indicating that the government fiscal stance is less expansionary than it actually is.<\/li><li>biased upwards thus indicating that the government fiscal stance is more expansionary than it actually is.<\/li><li>difficult to assess because their forecasts are subject to forecasting inaccuracy.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. When a sovereign government issues debt it logically:<\/li><ul><li>increases the financial assets that are held by the non-government sector $-for-$.<\/li><li>has no impact on the overall holdings of financial assets held by the non-government sector $-for-$.<\/li><li>reduces the capacity of the private sector to borrow from banks because they use their deposits to buy the bonds.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. Historically, government debt has been used by central banks to manage liquidity and sustain positive short-term policy interest rates targets. This function necessitates that currency-issuing governments continue to, at least, issue enough debt to allow these open market operations to continue.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 393 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=34521\">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 or not to the blogs I post. 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-34523","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\/34523","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=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}