{"id":42663,"date":"2019-07-05T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=42663"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:00:45","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-july-6-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=42663","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; July 6-7, 2019"},"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--><\/p>\n<h4>Quiz #537<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1.  Mainstream economists use the notion of \"crowding out\" to argue that public spending squeezes out private spending and results in a less efficient allocation of resources overall. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) denies that crowding out can occur.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. Larger fiscal deficits as a percentage of GDP typically mean that there are less real resources available for other productive uses.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3.  For a nation running a current account deficit, income adjustments will ensure government fiscal position is in deficit if the domestic private sector successfully increases its overall saving as a percentage of GDP.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 537 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=42661\">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-42663","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\/42663","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=42663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}