The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a wor…

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a world tour during the 1880s by a French​ singer, Mademoiselle Zelie. One stop on the tour was a theater in the Society​ Islands, part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. She performed for her usual​ fee, which was​ one-third of the receipts. This turned out to be three​ pigs, 23​ turkeys, 44​ chickens, 5000​ coconuts, and​ “considerable quantities of​ bananas, lemons, and​ oranges.” She estimated that all of this would have had a value in France of 4000 francs. According to​ Jevons, “as Mademoiselle could not consume any considerable portion of the receipts​ herself, it became necessary in the meantime to feed the pigs and poultry with the​ fruit.”   (​Source: W. Stanley Jevons​, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange​, New​ York: D. Appleton and​ Company, 1889, pp.​ 1-2.) Do the goods Mademoiselle Zelie received as payment fulfill the three functions of money?  

At the end of 2021, a country’s national debt was $750 billi…

At the end of 2021, a country’s national debt was $750 billion. In 2022, the government spent $150 billion and ended the year with a debt of $795 billion. How much did the government receive in tax revenues in 2022? The government received $_____ billion in tax revenues in 2022.