Determine if the items represent an example of positive economics or normative economics.
a. the richest 1 % of americans should pay more taxes than the rest of the 99 %.
b. a decrease in the supply of coconut will increase the price of german chocolate cake, a good which requires coconut shavings as a key ingredient.
c. as minimum wage increases, the prices of all goods and services also tends to increase.
d. social welfare spending in sweden occupies too large a portion of the national budget.

Plz i have no idea what a cover letter is can u guys explain it to me write a letter to the address below. you are responding to an advertisement from the willamette company for a job opening as an office assistant. you did some research and learned that the person to whom the application should be sent is ms. katrina n. d. waives. you are going to enclose a résumé and three letters of reference. your résumé will have details about your qualifications, so you should just give a brief but inviting overview of them here. in addition, your letter will include a very important paragraph that is not normally a part of a business letter. you will tell what format you are using for your letter where you got the information on this format. address of the willamette company: 355 buck hill road, portland, oregon 48792.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

Suppose the real risk-free rate and inflation rate are expected to remain at their current levels throughout the foreseeable future. consider all factors that affect the yield curve. then identify which of the following shapes that the u.s. treasury yield curve can take. check all that apply.