For reporting purposes, the SEC defines "insiders" as officers, directors and
A) The top four executives by compensation
B) persons owning at least 10% of the company's voting shares.
C) Anyone who provides advice to the board for a fee
D) Employees who earn above a threshold amount
Answer: B
Economics
- If the Federal Reserve creates new money to finance the government's deficit, then it is monetizing the deficit.(True/False)
- If the current price is above equilibrium price in a competitive market, we should expect a shortage of the product.(True/False)
- Any time the government sets an artificially low price for a product, it increases the possibility of a shortage of that product.(True/False)
- In cost-push inflation, prices go up because of higher cost of production.(True/False)
- When the Federal Reserve lowers the reserve requirement, the amount of money in circulation should tend to decrease.(True/False)
- A study of United States imports and exports shows that most of the United States' negative balance of trade is caused by imports of oil and automobiles.(True/False)
- "Dumping" is selling products to foreign countries for less than the price charged.(True/False)
- U.S. businesses were the first to start the trend toward multinational corporations.(True/False)
- Import quotas are no longer permitted under GATT.(True/False)
- Recession is a lesser form of inflation.(True/False)
- Prices help to determine the opportunity cost of a purchase.(True/False)
- The equilibrium price is where supply and demand curves intersect.(True/False)
- More than half of every sales dollar goes to profits.(True/False)
- Practical economists would order antipollution or clean-up measures only when the gains fro reduces pollution damage exceeded the cost of cleaning up or preventing that amount of pollution.(True/False)
- Higher GNP figures resulting form inflation do not represent an increase in output.(True/False)
- Political freedom and economic freedom are unrelated.(True/False)
- Interest on a bond must be paid whether the issuing corporation makes a profit or not.(True/False)
- A mutual fund is a single investment made and managed by one individual.(True/False)
- According to the Taft-Hartley Act, the president may delay a strike for 80days if it is harmful to the nation's safety and health.(True/False)
- Prices are an ineffective way to deal with scarcity.(True/False)
- The supply curve slopes downward from left to right.(True/False)
- A flexible exchange rate system is a system in which the laws of supply and demand are allowed to set the prices, or exchange rates, among types of money.(True/False)
- Environmental regulation can cause productivity measure to fall(True/False)
- Unlike other major energy sources, the supply of fossil fuels such as petroleum, natural gas, and coal are unlimited (True/False)
- The demand curve for a firm in a competitive environment is_______.