{"id":44834,"date":"2020-05-01T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44834"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:00:15","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-may-2-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44834","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; May 2-3, 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 #580<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1.  In a fixed coupon government bond auction, the higher is the demand for the bonds:<\/li><ul><li>the lower the yields will be at that asset maturity but this tells us nothing about the effect of fiscal deficits on short-term interest rates.<\/li><li>the lower the yields will be at that asset maturity which suggests that higher fiscal deficits will eventually drive short-term interest rates down.<\/li><li>the higher the yields will be at that asset maturity which suggests that higher fiscal deficits will eventually drive short-term interest rates down.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. The more public debt a currency-issuing government voluntarily issues:<\/li><ul><li>the less is the volume of funds in the non-government sector that can be used for other investments.<\/li><li>the greater is non-government wealth held in the form of public debt.<\/li><li>the more difficult it is for banks to attract deposits to initiate loans from.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3.  A fiscal deficit that is equivalent to 5 per cent of GDP always signals a more expansionary fiscal intent from government than a fiscal deficit outcome that is equivalent to 3 per cent of GDP.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True <\/li><li>Maybe<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 580 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=44832\">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-44834","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\/44834","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=44834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}