Businesses in the nation of islandia have been accumulating cash because they have a pessimistic outlook of the national economy. recent changes in the economic outlook of islandia have caused business leaders to begin to invest some of their accumulated cash. suppose that businesses in the country invest a total of $20 billion of this cash. (a) what would be the maximum expected change in gdp if islandia's marginal propensity toconsume (mpc) is 0.75? (b) suppose that the recent economic outlook in the country of mountainia has been the opposite. businesses have postponed planned investments and have begun to accumulate cash. ifbusinesses in mountainia postpone $10 billion of their planned investments, what would be themaximum expected change in gdp if its marginal propensity to save (mps) is 0.25?

Alamar petroleum company offers its employees the option of contributing retirement funds up to 5% of their wages or salaries, with the contribution being matched by alamar. the company also pays 80% of medical and life insurance premiums. deductions relating to these plans and other payroll information for the first biweekly payroll period of february are listed as follows: wages and salaries $ 2,800,000 employee contribution to voluntary retirement plan 92,000 medical insurance premiums 50,000 life insurance premiums 9,800 federal income taxes to be withheld 480,000 local income taxes to be withheld 61,000 payroll taxes: federal unemployment tax rate 0.60 % state unemployment tax rate (after futa deduction) 5.40 % social security tax rate 6.20 % medicare tax rate 1.45 % required: prepare the appropriate journal entries to record salaries and wages expense and payroll tax expense for the biweekly pay period. assume that no employee's cumulative wages exceed the relevant wage bases for social security, and that all employees' cumulative wages do exceed the relevant unemployment wage bases.