An outside supplier has offered to supply outdoor Life with the bindings for $14 each including shipping costs to its facility. If Outdoor Life accepts the offer it will be able to avoid $3,000 of fixed overhead. In addition if the offer is accepted Outdoor Life will be able to use the freed up facilities to produce another product that will contribute $3,500 to profit per month. Including the opportunity cost, how much will Outdoor Life save each month by accepting the offer from the outside supplier instead of making the bindings if they will need 2,500 sets of bindings next month?

When calculating the bountiful returns that retirees allegedly would glean from stock investments, privateers use rosy projections about a continually booming market. but when predicting bankruptcy for social security, they switch to pessimistic projections of a low-growth economy with abnormally low payments into the fund. in fact, far from going broke, social security produces enormous surpluses. from __ to americans paid more in social security taxes than were paid out in benefits. according to the congressional budget office, the social security trust fund will remain solvent until at least social security is the only federal program that produces about $150 billion yearly surplus, the only program that shows every sign of being selfsupporting and solvent for over thirty years to come yet is repeatedly described by its enemies as being in danger of insolvency?

What does the consumer price index measure? a. the change in prices of all goods and services over time b. the change in prices of specific goods and services over time c. the change in prices of final goods and services over time

An office manager is concerned with declining productivity. despite the fact that she regularly monitors her clerical staff four times each day—at 9: 00 am, 11: 00 am, 1: 00 pm, and again at 3: 00 pm—office productivity has declined 30 percent since she assumed the helm one year ago. would you recommend that the office manager invest more time monitoring the productivity of her clerical staff? explain.