Which of the following could be true if one decreases their long term liability and increases their liquid assets? a. paid off credit card balance and added money to savings. b. paid off medical bills and invested money. c. paid down mortgage and received a cash prize. d. paid taxes owed and bought a car.

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.

In a fixed-term, level-payment reverse mortgage, sometimes called a reverse annuity mortgage, or ram, a lender agrees to pay the homeowner a monthly payment, or annuity, and expects to be repaid from the homeowner’s equity when he or she sells the home or obtains other financing to pay off the ram. consider a household that owns a $150,000 home free and clear of mortgage debt. the ram lender agrees to a $100,000 ram for 10 years at 6 percent. assume payments are made annually, at the beginning of each year to the homeowner. calculate the annual payment on the ram.

Donald has created a trust for the benefit of his three nephews, huey, dewey, and louie, who are all minors. donald plans on making annual contributions to the trust. donald would like his annual contributions to the trust to qualify for the annual exclusion. what would be the best way to accomplish this goal? a)