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Household Financial Adjustments and Desired Wealth
Using the concept of a desired level of wealth, analyze and contrast the likely changes in a household's saving and spending behavior in two distinct scenarios: 1) The household's assets unexpectedly double in value due to a stock market boom. 2) The household's assets are unexpectedly halved in value due to a stock market crash. In your analysis, explain why the household's response is not simply to spend the entire gain or cut spending by the full amount of the loss.
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