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Your Aunt Owns a Gold Mine

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Your aunt owns a gold mine. The marginal extraction cost of gold is $25 and remains constant over time. The current market price of a unit of gold is $200. Your aunt's appropriate discount rate is 12%. Next year, your aunt expects the price of a unit of gold to be $222. Should your aunt extract any gold from the mine this year?

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No, she should not extract and...

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