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What is the owning cost for the dozer? Use the time-value method to calculate the depreciation portion of the ownership cost. (S29.943Thr)
What is the depreciation pan of this machine's ownership cost? Use the time value method to calculate depreciation. ($9.236/hr)
A tractor with an adjusted basis (from depreciation) of $65,030 is traded for a new tractor. What is the tax depreciation basis of the new tractor?
A tractor with adjusted basis from depreciation of 55, 000 sold for $ 60,000 and a new tractor purchased. What is the tax depreciadtion basis f the new tractor?
What have been the principal fiscal and monetary responses to the recession to date? What have been the results thus far?
Explain too big to fail and why it is a potential economic problem in any economic setting. How is too big to fail related to moral hazard?
What are mortgage-backed securities? Collateralized debt obligations? Credit default swaps? Are these investments in the traditional sense?
How can a collapse of the U.S housing market and weakness in the banking system cause an economic recession and unemployment?
What was the nature of the housing bubble experienced in the early to mid-2000s? What were its main causes?
What would you think about a proposal to tax financial transactions? Would you prefer it to an income or a sales tax? Why or why not?
What do you think are the main advantages and disadvantages of such a policy?
Did the financial crisis mostly have to do with banks? Homebuyers? International economics? What do you think is the most important factor that explains it?
In what ways is it similar to it? In what ways was it different? Do you know any stories of family members who lived through the Great Depression?
Why do you think that employment suffered from the disappearance of so much financial wealth following the financial crisis?
Who benefitted from low interest rates during the inflation of the housing bubble? How did the low interest rates create problems?
What factors contributed to the federal surplus during the Clinton administration, and why did it turn into a deficit in the following Bush administration?
What was the role of the national debt in the early period of U.S. history? What was Hamilton's vision for the U.S national debt?
Do you think that we can reduce deficits while also avoiding an increase in tax rates? Why would political leaders consider tax hikes?
What is the difference between austerity and stimulus? Which tack does the European Union follow?
Should there be a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution? What problems might such an amendment create?
What are some potential problems with excessive federal debt? How can the debt be managed or repaid?
Has the U.S. federal government ever had a budget surplus? When was the last time? Was there ever a time that the government was not in debt?
What is the function of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration? What OSHA office administers your area?
Write a one-page paper about the equipment used to accomplish their construction. Hoover Dam Panama Canal Interstate highway program.
What is the meaning of moral hazard? Give some examples of moral hazard, as discussed in the text, or others that you can think of.