According to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, the growth in real total trade (exports plus imports) equaled 46 percent of the United States economic growth from 2000 to 2014, with real exports equaling 23 percent of growth over the period. International markets are increasingly important for the growth of U.S. small firms. How might today businesses attract and retain the very best employees around the world by adopting a global benefits strategy? Support your response through examples and evidence.

1) The velocity of circulation of money is the ratio of the real gross domestic product to the money supply.

True

False

2) When the FOMC sets a monetary policy, it first identifies its intermediate target and then works accordingly to achieve its ultimate goal.

True

False

3) The Fed can enhance liquidity in the U.S. economy by increasing the federal funds rate.

True

False

4) Prior to 1980, thrift institutions in the United States were allowed to offer checking accounts.

True

False

A. Using a labor market graph and a few well chosen sentences a situation in which athletes that immigrate to the United States may be discriminated against, despite earning a higher wage than those that are native born. (10 points)

B. Using a monopsony wage market model and a few well chosen sentences, explain my sports league are often willing to give major wage concessions to player’s unions in order to stop the entrance of a rival league into the market. (10 points)

The Trade Pacific Partner (TPP) was signed in New Zealand on 4^th February 2016 by a group of twelve countries. However, the United States of America (USA) withdrew from the pact in January 2017 and the remaining 11 member countries signed the newly Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on 8^th March 2018.                            

1. State at least FIVE (5) goals of TPP.

2. Explain the benefits of TPP to Malaysia.

3. What is the plausible reason that the USA pull out of TPP?

There have been international financial crisis that have started in a given region, for example, the Asian contagion in 1997 caused unrest throughout the world’s financial markets and more recently the credit crisis in 2007 and 2008 started with the subprime mortgage market in the United States. Financial markets have become more integrated. How does this integration of financial markets cause the crises to spread across many countries? Use the 2008 subprime crisis to explain your response and provide examples.

Suppose you are tasked with explaining health care and the health care system in the united states to either:

a) a five year old
or
b) an anthropologist from another planet (who has access to a basic translator)

In either case, assume the individual knows that people get sick and that resources are scarce. Everything else you must explain simply. (3pts)

Your answer should include: Demand uncertainty, medical effectiveness uncertainty, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance, hospital, doctor/provider. (7pts)

A person's blood alcohol (C2H5OH) level can be determined by titrating a sample of blood pressure with a potassium dichromat solution. The balanced equation is 16 H + 2Cr2O7 + C2H5OH= 4Cr + 2CO2 + 11H20 a) identify the reducing and oxidizing agents in this reaction. b) In the United States, a blood alcohol content > 0.08% is legal grounds for DUI or DWI charge if a person to titrate 29.00 g of plasma taken from a suspected drunk driver. What is this person's blood alcohol content and are they legally under the influence?

Determine if there is sufficient evidence to conclude the average amount of deaths is equal to 6000 in the United States and territories at the 0.10 level of significance.

1. Clearly state a null and alternative hypothesis
2. Give the value of the test statistic n=52
3. Report the P-Value
4. Clearly state your conclusion (Reject the Null or Fail to Reject the Null)
5. Explain what your conclusion means in context of the data.

5. The Argentine peso was fixed through a currency board at Ps1.00/$ throughout the 1990s. In January 2002 the Argentine peso was floated. On January 29, 2003 it was trading at Ps3.65/$. During that one-year period Argentina's inflation rate was 20% on an annualized basis.

Inflation in the United States during that same period was 2.5% annualized.

1. What should have been the exchange rate in January 2003 if PPP held?

2. By what percentage was the Argentine peso undervalued on an annualized basis?

1. What were the probable causes of undervaluation?