{"id":47531,"date":"2021-05-21T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=47531"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:00:59","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-may-22-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=47531","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; May 22-23, 2021"},"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 #636<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. Assume inflation is stable, there is excess productive capacity, and the central bank maintains its current monetary policy setting. It is then true that if government spending increases by $X dollars and private investment and exports are unchanged then nominal income will continue growing until the sum of taxation revenue, import spending and household saving rises by $X dollars.<\/li><ul><li>False<\/li><li>True<\/li><li>Maybe<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. The crucial difference between a monetary system based on the gold standard world and a fiat currency monetary is:<\/li><ul><li>that under the former system, excessive national government spending led to inflation. <\/li><li>that under the former system, the national government had to issue debt to cover spending above taxation.<\/li><li>that under the former system, the national government could not use net spending to achieve full employment.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. When the national government&apos;s fiscal balance moves into deficit:<\/li><ul><li>it is a sign that the government is trying to stimulate the economy.<\/li><li>it is a sign that the government is worried that unemployment is rising<\/li><li>you cannot conclude anything about the government&apos;s policy intentions.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 636 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=47529\">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-47531","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\/47531","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=47531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}