Between 2001 and 2003, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates 12 times. This is an example of
A. nondiscretionary fiscal policy.
B. contractionary monetary policy.
C. discretionary fiscal policy.
D. expansionary monetary policy.
Answer: D
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Which of the following transactions would be included in the official calculation of GDP?
A) You wash and wax your father's car as a favor to him. B) You illegally download music off the Internet to put on your new iPod. C) You buy a new iPod. D) A student buys a used textbook at the bookstore. E) Firestone sells $2 million worth of tires to General Motors.
The 1991 Maastricht Treaty can be best described as
A) a peace treaty between Europe and the United States. B) an agreement for the accession of the Netherlands into the EU. C) an agreement for the creation of a free trade area. D) a provision for the introduction of a single European currency and European central bank. E) the beginning of a floating exchange rate European monetary system.
Analysis of the Great Depression indicates that
a. even though monetary and fiscal policies were highly expansionary, they were unable to offset the economic plunge. b. even though monetary policy was expansionary, restrictive fiscal policy dominated during the 1930s. c. a reduction in tax rates could not prevent the economic downturn from spiraling into a depression. d. the severity of the economic decline, if not its onset, was the result of perverse monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies.
Which of the following explains why fluctuations in real GDP have become less volatile in the United States since 1950?
A) Services have become a smaller fraction of GDP since the 1950s. B) Unemployment insurance and other government transfer programs are more prevalent since the 1950s. C) The government has become more reluctant to intervene when real GDP declines and unemployment rises since the 1950s. D) both B and C