{"id":45459,"date":"2020-07-24T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=45459"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:00:50","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-july-25-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=45459","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; July 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<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 #592<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. The difference between a situation where the government runs a deficit and matches it with debt-issuance to the non-government sector to a situation where debt is only issued to the central bank is that non-government sector financial wealth rises in the first case.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. If net exports are running at 2 per cent of GDP, and the private domestic sector is saving overall an equivalent of 3 per cent of GDP, the government must be running a surplus equal to 1 per cent of GDP.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. To reduce the public debt ratio, the government has to eventually run primary fiscal surpluses (that is, spend less than they raise in taxes net of interest payments on past debt).<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 592 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45457\">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-45459","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\/45459","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=45459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}