Based on the graph showing how the subprime share of home mortgages grew rapidly before the big decline, by Q2 of 2008, the gap between adjustable mortgage rates and the share of subprime mortgages was ______.
a. the greatest it had ever been
b. the smallest it had ever been
c. narrowing
d. expanding
c. narrowing
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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax increase that decreases aggregate demand from AD1 to AD will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies.
A. D; C B. D; B C. A; B D. B; C
Forecasts by the Congressional Budget Office show spending on Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid rising from 10.1 percent of GDP in 2015 to ________ percent of GDP in 2090, and by 2090 the federal government will be spending, as a fraction of GDP, ________ on these three programs as it currently spends on all programs combined. A) 16.2 percent; half as much B) 19.8 percent; half as much C) 19.8 percent; nearly as much D) 16.2 percent; nearly as much
Over time, the terms of trade of Latin American countries have generally ________, and the terms of trade of developed countries have generally ________
A) worsened; worsened B) worsened; improved C) improved; worsened D) improved; improved
If T represents the size of the tax on a good and Q represents the quantity of the good that is sold, total tax revenue received by government can be expressed as
a. T/Q. b. T+Q. c. TxQ. d. (TxQ)/Q.