{"id":34599,"date":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=34599"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T06:00:42","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-october-15-16-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=34599","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; October 15-16, 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 #395<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. If any nation adopts a &apos;balanced budget&apos; rule (that government spending plus interest payments must equal revenue at all times) and they successfully achieve that goal then the private domestic sector in nations that run external deficits will always spend less than they earn.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. The non-government sector does not enjoy an increase in its financial asset holdings as a result of its sovereign government issuing debt to match its net spending.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. In a situation where the private domestic sector decides to lift its overall saving rate we cannot conclude that the national government has to increase its net spending (deficit) to avoid employment losses.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 395 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=34597\">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-34599","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\/34599","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=34599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}