{"id":44167,"date":"2020-01-24T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44167"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:00:07","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-january-25-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44167","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; January 25-26, 2020"},"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 #566<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1.  A fact that is overlooked by those promoting austerity programs, is that when economic growth resumes, the automatic stabilisers work in a counter-cyclical fashion and ensure that the government fiscal balance returns to its appropriate level.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. From a monetary perspective, it would be impossible for a central bank to directly purchase Treasury debt to facilitate a national government&apos;s fiscal deficit while still targeting a non-zero policy rate.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. . Rising government bond yields for new issues indicate:<\/li><ul><li>that government spending is becoming more expensive.<\/li><li>that economic growth is reducing private risk assessments of alternative financial investments.<\/li><li>that government spending is increasing the cost of borrowing for private investors.<\/li><li>that private investors consider public debt to be riskier.<\/li><li>Answers (a) and (d) depending on the situation.<\/li><li>Answers (b) and (d) depending on the situation.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 566 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=44165\">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-44167","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\/44167","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=44167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}