Read and assess the following financial decisions.
Keeping everything else constant, are the following actions good financial decisions or not?

1. Juan is a small-business owner. He has some cash flow and wants to invest in a new project. Juan’s assistant provides an evaluation and estimates the nominal returns that Juan would earn if he invests in the project. Juan reads the evaluation and makes the decision based on the real terms after factoring in inflation.
2. The technology boom in the late 1990s enticed everyone. Wilson is an average investor, and he invested all his money in technology stocks.
3. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are in the middle of their investment planning, so they hire a financial planner. In their discussions with the financial planner, they include their investment timeline and the length of time that they can keep investing. This helps Mr. and Mrs. Smith come up with an investment objective and a financial plan

Suppose that kenji, an economist from an am talk radio program, and lucia, an economist from a school of industrial relations, are arguing over health insurance. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: lucia: a popular topic for debate among politicians as well as economists is the idea of providing government assistance for health benefits. kenji: i think it is oppressive for the government to tax people who take care of themselves in order to pay for health insurance for those who are obese. lucia: i disagree. i think government funding of health insurance is useful to ensure basic fairness. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? lawyers make up an excessive percentage of elected officials. minimum wage laws do more to harm low-skilled workers than them. tariffs and import quotas generally reduce economic welfare.

8. agreement and disagreement among economists suppose that bob, an economist from a university in arizona, and cho, an economist from a public television program, are arguing over saving incentives. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: cho: i think it's safe to say that, in general, the savings rate of households in today's economy is much lower than it really needs to be to sustain an improvement in living standards. bob: i think a switch from the income tax to a consumption tax would bring growth in living standards. cho: you really think households would change their saving behavior enough in response to this to make a difference? because i don't. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? rent ceilings reduce the quantity and quality of available housing. immigrants receive more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes. having a single income tax rate would improve economic performance.

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.