{"id":45261,"date":"2020-06-19T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=45261"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:00:29","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-june-20-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=45261","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; June 20-21, 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 #587<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. If the current account (on balance of payments) is in deficit and household saving increases as a proportion of disposable income then the government could still run a fiscal surplus without a decline in output and income occurring.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. Politics aside, the central bank can still increase interest rates even if it was legislatively required to directly purchase treasury debt to match the national governments fiscal deficit.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True <\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. Domestic deflation (reducing domestic wages and prices relative to other nations), which Eurozone nations are prone to pursue because they have no exchange rate flexibility, may not increase export competitiveness.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 587 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45259\">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-45261","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\/45261","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=45261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}