The Weekend Quiz – January 22-23, 2022

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 #671

  • 1. A currency-issuing government can always ensure there is first-class service provision to meet the demands of an ageing population.
    • False
    • True
  • 2. For a nation running a small current account deficit (close to balance), the government fiscal position will always be in deficit if the domestic private sector is spending less overall than it earns.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. Ignoring laws to the contrary, a central bank currently targetting a 2 per cent short-term policy rate, cannot directly purchase treasury debt to facilitate the national governments fiscal deficit (that is, "monetise the deficit") and continue to maintain its policy rate at 2 per cent.
    • False
    • True

Sorry, quiz 671 is now closed.

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