1. A loan is offered with monthly payments and a 13.25 percent APR. What’s the loan’s effective annual rate (EAR)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
2. The Smoot
-Hawley Tariff was one of the most protectionist tariffs in U.S. history. How can we explain its passage in 1930?
How convincing is/are the explanation(s)?