{"id":43039,"date":"2019-08-30T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43039"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:00:44","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-august-31-september-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43039","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; August 31-September 1, 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 #545<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. The private domestic sector can save overall, even if the government fiscal balance is in surplus, as long as net exports are positive.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. There is talk among central bankers of renewed programs of quantitative easing to fight off fears of recession as a result of the trade tensions. Fiscal stimulus is also being proposed. The two work in different ways but have the same ultimate impact on net worth in the non-government sector. <\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3.  While continuous national governments deficits are possible if the non-government sector desires to save overall, they do imply continuously rising public debt levels as a percentage of GDP (under current debt-issuance arrangements).<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 545 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=43037\">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-43039","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\/43039","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=43039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}