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The local price foe a set of cutting edges is 51,300. What is the operating con for the dozer in this application?
A 260-fwhp diesel-powered wheel loader will be used to load shot rock. What is the operating cost for the loader in this application?
The work will be steady at an efficiency equal to a 60.min hour. The engine will work at half throttle. Calculate the theoretical fuel consumption.
The company's cost of capital is 3.9%. What is the depreciation part of this machines ownership cost? Use the time-value method to calculate depreciation.
What is the owning cost for the grader? Use the time-value method to calculate the depreciation portion of the ownership cost.
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 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?
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?
What is the function of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration? What OSHA office administers your area?
How do international linkages affect your own life? Can you give examples of the sorts of linkages listed that have had direct effects on you or your family?
Prepae a series of short-term, one-year loans. The interest rate on this year's loan would be 6 percent, while future nominal interest rates are unknown.
If the going interest rate is 3 percent, how much can you sell it for today? What does this illustrate about bond prices and interest rates?
What does the Fed chair identify as the most significant issues facing the economy? How is the Fed proposing to deal with them?