Which argument would most likely be made by the author of the following passage? Having governmental funding may seem like good fortune for failing farms, but the government is not always the answer. The funds are not always
enough to compensate for a farm's production costs, so neither the government nor the farm yield any compensation for their efforts.
O Government funding is less profitable for farms than privatized funding
O Farmers should not use government funding because this money makes crops fail
O Farms rely too much on funding, and they should make their own money
Farms should stop planting and harvesting crops like com and grain

4. the condition requires that only one of the selected criteria be true for a record to be displayed.

Suppose portugal has 700 workers and 26,000 units of capital, and france has 18,000 workers and 700 units of capital. technology is identical in both countries. assume that wine is the capital-intensive good and cloth is the labor-intensive good. which of the following statements is correct if the nations start trading with each other? a) wages will increase in portugal.b) rental rates in france will increase.c) wages in france will decrease.d) rental rates in portugal will increase.

Wo firms, a and b, each currently dump 50 tons of chemicals into the local river. the government has decided to reduce the pollution and from now on will require a pollution permit for each ton of pollution dumped into the river. it costs firm a $100 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs firm b $50 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. the government gives each firm 20 pollution permits. government officials are not sure whether to allow the firms to buy or sell the pollution permits to each other. what is the total cost of reducing pollution if firms are not allowed to buy and sell pollution permits from each other? what is the total cost of reducing pollution if the firms are allowed to buy and sell permits from each other? a. $3,000; $1,500 b. $4,500; $3,500 c. $4,500; $4,000 d. $4,500; $2,500