Direct finance occurs when:

What does the “O” in a SOAP note stand for?    

What happens to aggregate demand (AD) if the price level rises?

Securitization is:

An advance in technology allows a firm to produce __________ output with __________ resources.

Refer to the following table to answer the questions that follow: As presented in the table, the rate of inflation from 1999–2000 (i.e., during the year 2000) was (rounded to two decimal places): Inflation Rate = [(CPI Year 2 – CPI Year 1)/CPI Year 1] x 100

Stocks are:

Coupon bonds are bonds with coupons attached that represent:

Suppose you want to calculate a consumer price index (CPI) for college students. Let’s keep things simple and assume that a typical student buys seven textbooks, nine pizzas, and twelve six-packs of beer in a year. The table below shows this market basket and the price of each good in 2016 and 2017. For the questions below, assume that 2016 is the base year for the CPI.      2016 2017 Good Quantity Unit price Unit price  Textbooks  7  $180.00  $210.00  Pizza  9     12.00     10.00  Beer  12     10.00     12.00 CPI = (current basket price/basket price in base year) x 100 If 2016 is the base year, the price index in 2017 was ______________.

In financial markets, savers looking for opportunities to earn a return on their savings would be the: