{"id":43831,"date":"2019-12-06T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43831"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:00:30","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-december-7-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43831","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; December 7-8, 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 #559<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. In the recent European Commission <em> Autumn 2019 Economic Forecast<\/em> we learned that many nations, still carrying elevated levels of unemployment were judged to be operating at over-full capacity. This tells us that the Commission&apos;s structural deficit estimates are typically:<\/li><ul><li>difficult to assess because their forecasts are subject to forecasting inaccuracy.<\/li><li>biased downwards<\/li><li>biased upwards<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. When a sovereign government issues debt it logically increases the financial assets that are held by the non-government sector $-for-$.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. Open market operations as a means of ensuring that levels of bank reserves are consistent with the policy target become redundant if the central bank pays a positive interest rate on overnight reserves held by the commercial banks (ignore any reserve requirements in place when answering).<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><li>Maybe<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 559 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=43829\">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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43831","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\/43831","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=43831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}