Coffee corporation has 2,000 shares of common stock outstanding. john owns 700 of the shares, john’s grandfather owns 100 shares, john’s father owns 100 shares, john’s ex-wife owns 700 shares, and redbird partnership owns 400 shares. john is a 50% partner in redbird partnership. how many shares is john deemed to own in coffee corporation under the § 318 attribution rules?

a. 700
b. 1,000
c. 1,100
d. 1,700
e. none of the above

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.