Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2014 August 17

= August 17 =

Economic Multiple Choice Questions
1.	Which of the following statements about the financial and real sectors is true? A) For every financial asset there is a real asset. B) For every real asset there is a financial asset. C) For every financial transaction there is a real transaction. D) For every real transaction there is a financial transaction. 2.	Without a financial sector: A) borrowing and lending would not occur. B) borrowing and lending would be much more difficult. C) saving and investment would increase. D) economic activity would continue as before. 3.	If the financial sector causes more to flow into spending than is saved, most likely: A) the supply of real assets will exceed the demand for real assets. B) there will be too many real assets produced. C) the economy will experience inflation. D) the economy will experience recession. 4.	Flows that do not enter the spending stream enter the financial sector in the form of: A) saving. B) investment. C) real assets. D) expenditures. 5.	The funds acquired from the sale of a financial asset: A) may re-enter the spending stream as a financial liability. B) may re-enter the spending stream as consumption and borrowing. C) may re-enter the spending stream as a financial asset. D) cannot re-enter the spending stream. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walidalrawi (talk • contribs) 17:04, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

StuRat (talk) 17:15, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * A few links: financial asset, real asset, real transaction, financial transaction, economic activity, spending stream Rmhermen (talk) 17:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You do know that fully half of those "links" aren't links...right? You might try actually following the links you recommend before posting them! SteveBaker (talk) 02:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Sometimes the reference deskers will try to improve the encyclopedia by turning those red links to blue. We even have a template to point out when we've done it. One can hope. 75.41.109.190 (talk) 19:48, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It looks like Economics is the only reasonable redirect for the remaining ones. Should we create them? Tevildo (talk) 20:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Normally, I'd agree that using red links where you think an article should exist (but doesn't) is a good thing - but when someone asks for help and the answer is "Read these documents...which, by the way, don't exist" - then it's not especially helpful to the OP! Worse still, if you're recommending that someone read one of our articles, you really should at least skim it yourself to be sure it actually does answer the question and isn't the title of the deeply moving, third track from the acclaimed self-titled album of a Norwegian CyberPunk-Polka fusion band "Real Asset" that disbanded in 1979.  Clearly if you just type a bunch of likely titles in square brackets, and half of them don't exist, it strongly implies that this minimal level of due diligence was not undertaken. SteveBaker (talk) 20:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't choose the links - I simply linked some words in the OP's question and then deleted the surrounding words. If Wikipedia fails to have articles on basic economics topic, it seems to show a problem the Reference desk used to love to tackle. Rmhermen (talk) 21:24, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No, SteveBaker is right – the problem is yours, for failing to check whether those are articles. --Viennese Waltz 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Walidalrawi (the OP) might have already typed in these words and found Wikipedia unhelpful. The point about missing articles would have been better made in a comment separate from a reply purporting to be helpful.    D b f i r s   20:52, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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