What is TRUE about government budget deficits and surpluses since 1940?
A. There have been more government budget deficits than government budget surpluses.
B. Balanced budgets have been more common than government budget deficits or government budget surpluses.
C. The number of government budget deficits is about the same as the number of government budget surpluses.
D. There have been more government budget surpluses than government budget deficits.
Answer: A
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When the Fed purchases government securities, it
A. increases banks' reserves and makes possible an increase in the money supply.
B. decreases banks' reserves and makes possible a decrease in the money supply.
C. automatically raises the discount rate.
D. uses discounting operations to influence margin requirements.
e. has no effect on either the money supply or the discount rate.
Over the last 100 years, the average U.S. growth rate in real GDP per person was about
A) 2 percent per year. B) 6 percent per year. C) 12.5 percent per year. D) 1 percent per year.
A shift in short-run aggregate supply from SRAS2 to SRAS1 could have been the result of
A. a decrease in the price level. B. an increase in the price level. C. an increase in wage rates. D. a decrease in wage rates.
Your professor loves her work, teaching economics. She has been offered other positions in the corporate world that would increase her income by 25 percent, but she has decided to continue working as a professor. Her decision would not change unless the marginal
a. cost of teaching increased. b. benefit of teaching increased. c. cost of a corporate job increased. d. benefit of a corporate job decreased.