The Weekend Quiz – May 8-9, 2021

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.

Quiz #634

  • 1. Assume that a nation is continuously running an external deficit of 2 per cent of GDP. In this economy, if the private domestic sector successfully saves overall, we would find
    • A fiscal deficit
    • A fiscal surplus
    • Cannot determine because we would need to know the scale of the private domestic sector saving as a % of GDP
  • 2. Government bonds constitute non-government financial wealth. Accordingly, non-government net worth immediately rises if the government issues new bonds to match its deficit spending.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. A government wanting to achieve full employment after a deep recession will succeed if it uses discretionary fiscal policy to ensure real GDP growth gets back on trend.
    • False
    • True

Sorry, quiz 634 is now closed.

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