Saturday Quiz – September 14, 2013

Welcome to the Billy Blog Saturday Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention over the last seven days. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.

Quiz #234

• 1. If workers succeed in gaining real wages increases then, other things equal, the share of profits in national income is squeezed.
• False
• True
• 2. Government spending can crowd out private spending, which means that an increase in the former will reduce the latter.
• False
• True
• 3. Suppose that the government announced it intended to cut its deficit from 4 per cent of GDP to 2 per cent in the coming year and during that year net exports were projected to move from a deficit of 1 per cent of GDP to a surplus of 1 per cent of GDP. If private sector deleveraging resulted in it spending less than it earned to the measure of 5 per cent of GDP, then the fiscal austerity plans will undermine growth even if the net export surplus was realised.
• False
• True

Sorry, quiz 234 is now closed.

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