Afractional reserve banking system:
a. prevents the federal reserve from influencing the money supply.
b. is susceptible to bank "panics" or "runs."
c. prevents money creation through the lending process.
d. only tends to exist in developing economies.

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

Costs of production that do not change when output changes.question 17 options: total revenuefixed incometotal costfixed cost

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.