Blue Co. purchased equity investments with significant influence on 1/1 of last year for $50,000. Blue Co. recored their share of earnings during the current year of $5,000 and dividends of $2,000. Blue Co. will report their ending balance in the Equity Method Investments account of $___.

You are bearish on telecom and decide to sell short 100 shares at the current market price of $50 per share. a. how much in cash or securities must you put into your brokerage account if the broker’s initial margin requirement is 50% of the value of the short position? b. how high can the price of the stock go before you get a margin call if the maintenance margin is 30% of the value of the short position? (input the amount as a positive value. round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

In which of the following games is it clearly the case that the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society? a. two oil companies own adjacent oil fields over a common pool of oil, and each company decides whether to drill one well or two wells.b. two airlines dominate air travel between city a and city b, and each airline decides whether to charge a "high" airfare or a "low" airfare on flights between those two cities.c. two superpowers decide whether to build new weapons or to disarm.d. in all of the above cases, the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society

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