In 2012, the washington post reported that a georgia congressman secured $6.3 million in taxpayer money to replenish a beach close to his vacation home. similarly, a michigan representative secured $486,000 to build a bike lane near her home. while the ethics behind these actions are questionable, they are legal. what type of funding projects are these congresspeople using?

2. you take $100 you had kept under your mattress and deposit it on your bank account. if this $100 stays in the banking system as reserves and if banks hold reserves equal to 10% of deposits, by how much does the total amount of deposits in the banking system increase? by how much does the money supply increase?

Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. as a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

If temper company, a manufacturer of mattresses, was considering moving its production facilities to china but decided against it because the additional costs of shipping the mattresses back to the u. s. would offset the cost savings associated with moving the production facilities, the increased costs associated with shipping would be an example ofanswers: learning-curve economies. diseconomies of scale. economies of scale. competitive advantages.