B. use simple linear regression analysis to find the parameters for the line that minimizes mse for this time series. do not round your interim computations and round your final answers to three decimal places. for subtractive or negative numbers use a minus sign. (example: -300)

y-intercept, b0 =

slope, b1 =

mse =
c. what is the forecast for t = 8? if required, round your answer to three decimal places.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u. s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.