{"id":36893,"date":"2017-09-29T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=36893"},"modified":"2017-09-29T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:00:36","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-september-30-october-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=36893","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; September 30-October 1, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWelcome to <strong>The Weekend Quiz<\/strong>. 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 #445<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. Assume that a nation is continuously running an external deficit of 2 per cent of GDP. If the private domestic sector successfully spends less than its overall income, then we would always find a public sector deficit.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. The automatic stabilisers built into fiscal policy operate to return the government&apos;s fiscal balance returns to its appropriate level once growth returns to trend following a downturn.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. The government has to issue debt if the central bank is targetting a non-zero policy rate and is reluctant to pay a competitive return on excess bank reserves.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 445 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=36891\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Weekend 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-36893","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\/36893","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=36893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}