{"id":40344,"date":"2018-09-14T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=40344"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T06:00:17","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-september-15-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=40344","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; September 15-16, 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 blog posts that 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* This week (Tuesday, September 11, 1973) marked the 45th Anniversary of the day when right-wing forces aided by the US overthrew the democratically elected government Chile. It was a terrorist act we should continue to remember like other terrorist acts!<\/p>\n<h4>Quiz #495<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. The IMF use their estimates of the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) to calibrate their structural deficit estimates. Accordingly, the structural deficits will typically be:<\/li><ul><li>difficult to assess because their forecasts are highly inaccurate<\/li><li>biased downwards.<\/li><li>biased upwards.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. Under a fiat monetary system, the absence of currency convertibility means that:<\/li><ul><li>the currency is only convertible into government bonds rather than gold.<\/li><li>government can induce us to offer goods and services in return for public spending by fining us for walking down streets.<\/li><li>there is no reason for people to hold currency as a hedge against gold price falls.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. Only one of the following statements can be true when you observe rising government bond yields for new issues:<\/li><ul><li>Government spending is becoming more expensive.<\/li><li>Bond prices are falling in response to demand.<\/li><li>Government spending is increasing the cost of borrowing for private investors.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 495 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=40342\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that 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-40344","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\/40344","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=40344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}