{"id":44956,"date":"2020-05-15T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44956"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:00:33","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-may-16-17-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=44956","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; May 16-17, 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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Quiz_Image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Quiz_Image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44957\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Quiz #582<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. If the national government stopped issuing public debt then its deficit spending would be no more expansionary than the current practice of non-government bank reserves through debt issuance.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. Non-government sector net worth does not immediately change when the government issues debt which exactly matches ($-for-$) the increase in net public spending.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><li>Depends on whether interest is paid on Excess reserves<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3.  If net exports are contributing to economic growth, then the national government may have the room to run a fiscal surplus without impeding that growth.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 582 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=44954\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","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\/44956","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=44956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}