False.
If the price of a product goes up by 10% and the quantity demanded goes up by 20% the product is a GIFFEN GOOD.
An inferior good is a good that decreases in demand if income increases. These are the goods that people opt not to buy when their purchasing power increases.
Answer:
The aftertax salvage value of the machine is D) $10,134
Explanation:
Hi. first, we need to find out the book value of the machine at the selling date, that is 3 years from now, and the book value is as follows.
Since taxes are based on the profit you make by selling something, our profit is:
Therefore, our taxes are:
So, the after tax salvage value of the machine is the money you received on the sale minus the taxes you have to pay, that is:
Salvage Value of the Machine = $12,000 - $1,866?= $10,134
That is option D)
Best of luck.
Answer:
The correct answer is letter "B": franchising.
Explanation:
A Franchise is a business where one person, the <em>franchisee</em>, gains access to the proprietary knowledge, processes, and trademarks of a <em>franchisor</em>. In return for a royalty, the franchisee acquires the right to market a product or service under an existing brand name.
The customer is already familiar with the brand, so there is no need to invest additional resources to promote the product.
Answer:
c. investment expenditures
Explanation:
The reason for this is that during business cycles investors gain trust in the economy during a boom and invest a lot and during a recession they lose trust in the economy and decrease their investment by a lot, where as a lot of consumption like food, medicine, petrol etc remains mostly unaffected by changes in business cycle. Also government spending does not fluctuate a lot during the course of a business cycle because government spending is either long term like development projects.
Answer:
- B. The former program trustee argues that the current inflation measure overcompensates seniors since it ignores the substitution effect.
- C. According to advocates for seniors, the 2020 COLA is not enough to compensate for rising healthcare costs.
- D. Elizabeth Warren has proposed using a new inflation measure that outpaces the current one used.
Explanation:
The article is, ''<em>Social Security checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits
'' </em>by<em> Associated Press. </em>
Blahous is a former program trustee who believes that the current inflation adjustment rate at which Social security is increasing is overcompensating seniors because it does not take into account that seniors could be switching to buying cheaper products which is the Substitution effect.
Advocates and the seniors themselves have complained that the 2020 COLA is not enough to meet their current needs especially given the rising cost of healthcare.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both proposed using a new measure for inflation that will adequately compensate the seniors because it outpaces the current one used.
