{"id":39883,"date":"2018-07-20T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=39883"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:00:23","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-july-21-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=39883","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; July 21-22, 2018"},"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 #487<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. As a matter of accounting, the net financial assets held by the non-government sector rise $-for-$ when a sovereign government issues debt.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. In a fiat monetary system (for example, US or Australia) with an on-going external deficit that exceeds the public deficit (expressed as percentages of GDP), the private domestic sector cannot reduce its overall debt levels (by overall saving) without incurring employment losses.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. The imposition of fiscal rules which aim to limit the discretionary capacity of governments to net spend bias fiscal policy towards counter-cyclical responses when private spending is weak.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 487 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=39879\">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-39883","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\/39883","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=39883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}