The agency that was created to protect depositors after the banking failures of 1930-1933 is the

A) Federal Reserve System.
B) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
C) Treasury Department.
D) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.


B

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a. equal to the competitive labor market number of workers b. greater than the competitive labor market number of workers c. greater than the number of workers if the monopsonist were not facing a union d. less than the number of workers if the monopsonist were not facing a union e. the same as the number of workers if the monopsonist were not facing a union

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