improbable scenarios
100 - What would happen to the IS-LM curve if Humans discover they can photosynthesize like plants?
Output and interest rates go down
$200 - A Florida man marries a Costco and legally becomes entitled to 1/2 of all bulk goods in the divorce settlement. He immediately puts all the goods on the black market at a steep discount. What would happen to interest rates and output
Output and interest rates go up
$300 - If Benjamin Netanyahu is secretly Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (which creates uncertainty and foreign turmoil), what would happen to consumption, government jobs, and the interest rate?
output goes down, and interest rates go up
$400 - If the illuminati were exposed, revealing hundreds of government officials who manage the government’s spending and business elites to be members, what would be the effect on interest rates and output?
Output drops and interest rates rise
$500 - If a portal opened above Washington DC, releasing one man-eating dragon who destroyed factories and bridges throughout the east coast before being killed, but staying open, what would be the effect on interest rates and output?
output and interest rates rise