Suppose that you buy a two-year 8% bond at its face value. a. What will be your nominal return over the two years if inflation is 3% in the first year and 5% in the second? What will be your real return? b. Now suppose that the bond is a TIPS. What will be your real and nominal returns?

Unrecorded depreciation on the trucks at the end of the year is $40,000. the total amount of accrued interest expense at year-end is $6,000. the cost of unused office supplies still available at year-end is $2,000. 1. use the above information about the company’s adjustments to complete a 10-column work sheet. 2a. prepare the year-end closing entries for dylan delivery company as of december 31, 2017. 2b. determine the capital amount to be reported on the december 31, 2017 balance sheet.

Fortress international, a large conglomerate, procures a few component parts from external suppliers and also manufactures some of the key raw materials in its own subsidiaries. aside from this, the company does not solely depend on outside distributors to reach its customers. in fact, it has its own retail stores to distribute its products. in this scenario, which of the following alternatives to vertical integration is fortress international applying? a. concentric integration b. taper integration c. horizontal integration d. conglomerate integration

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.