Emeril borrows $340,000 to finance taxable and tax-exempt investments. he incurs $18,000 investment interest expense, allocated equally between the taxable and tax-exempt investments. ignore any possible investment interest expense limitation. how much of the interest expense is deductible, and where is it deductible? a) $18,000 for agib) $18,000 from agic) $9,000 for agid) $9,000 from agi

Demand increases by less than supply increases. as a result, (a) equilibrium price will decline and equilibrium quantity will rise. (b) both equilibrium price and quantity will decline. (c) both equilibrium price and quantity will rise

Many potential buyers value high-quality used cars at the full-information market price of € p1 and lemons at € p2. a limited number of potential sellers value high-quality cars at € v1 ≤ p1 and lemons at € v2 ≤ p2. everyone is risk neutral. the share of lemons among all the used cars that might be potentially sold is € θ . suppose that the buyers incur a transaction cost of $200 to purchase a car. this transaction cost is the value of their time to find a car. what is the equilibrium? is it possible that no cars are sold

Baskin promotions, inc. sells t-shirts decorated for a variety of concert performers. the company has developed the following budget for the coming year based on a sales forecast of 80,000 t-shirts: sales $ 1,400,000 cost of goods sold 820,000 gross profit 580,000 operating expenses ($100,000 is fixed) 418,400 operating income 161,600 income taxes (30% of operating income) 48,480 net income $ 113,120 cost of goods sold and variable operating expenses vary directly with sales, and the income tax rate is 30% at all levels of operating income. if the concert season is slow due to poor weather, baskin estimates that sales could fall to as low as 60,000 t-shirts. assume baskin actually achieves the 60,000 unit sales level, and that net income actually earned at this level was $70,000. a performance report would indicate that net income was: