{"id":50213,"date":"2022-07-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=50213"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:00:00","slug":"the-weekend-quiz-july-30-31-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=50213","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Quiz &#8211; July 30-31, 2022"},"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 #694<\/h4><ul>\n<li>1. Over the last several decades, central banks and treasuries have used the concept of the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) to define full employment and calibrate their estimates of the state of the economic cycle. Accordingly, these estimates will typically be:<\/li><ul><li> biased downwards indicating they think the economy is further away from full employment than it actually is.<\/li><li>biased upwards indicating they think that the economy is closer to full employment than it actually is.<\/li><li>difficult to assess because their forecasts are subject to forecasting inaccuracy.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>2. When a sovereign government issues debt it logically:<\/li><ul><li>increases the financial assets that are held by the non-government sector $-for-$.<\/li><li>has no impact on the overall holdings of financial assets held by the non-government sector $-for-$.<\/li><li>reduces the capacity of the private sector to borrow from banks because they use their deposits to buy the bonds.<\/li><\/ul>\n<li>3. Only one of the following statements can be true when you observe rising government bond yields for new issues:<\/li><ul><li>Government spending is becoming more expensive.<\/li><li>Bond prices are falling in response to demand.<\/li><li>Government spending is increasing the cost of borrowing for private investors.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<h3>Sorry, quiz 694 is now closed.<\/h3>\n\t<p> You can find the answers and discussion <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=50211\">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-50213","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\/50213","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=50213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}