Describe the economic crisis of 2008 . Describe the four stages of the crisis. What have been the impacts of the crisis? How has the crisis called into question the free market­oriented "Washington Consensus" that has dominated since World War II? How have the powerful countries dealt with the crisis?

What will be an ideal response?


Myriad economic and political factors caused the global financial crisis, and the
particulars of the crash, especially the investment instruments themselves, are
incredibly complex. Indeed, former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan
Greenspan noted that a key cause of the crisis was the inability of the world's "most
sophisticated investors" and regulators—the people who actually created and
worked with these instruments—to understand the.

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Researchers studying campaigns stress that campaigns can have what three effects on voters?

a. selection, application, and alteration b. reinforcement, alteration, and adaptation c. activation, fortification, and collection d. reinforcement, activation, and conversion

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Fredrick Jackson Turner's famous thesis is known as the

a. frontier thesis. b. expansion thesis. c. land grab thesis. d. opportunity thesis. e. Americanization thesis.

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X, a resident of Indiana, gets on a Greyhound bus in Ohio. Greyhound is a New Jersey corporation with its primary place of business in New York. X buys a candy bar at a Greyhound bus terminal in Kentucky out of a machine leased to Greyhound by a West Virginia candy distributor. X unwraps the candy bar in Tennessee, eats it in Georgia, gets sick in Alabama, and dies on reaching his destination in

Florida. X's widow, who has been living apart from her husband in Illinois, brings suit for the wrongful death of her husband in an Illinois court of general jurisdiction against Greyhound and the candy distributor. Which state's law should apply if the court uses the lex loci delicti commissi conflict of laws approach? a. Indiana c. New Jersey b. Ohio d. None of the above is true.

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Efforts to create alternative energy and stimulate the technology industry in Texas have come about through cooperation between public and private initiatives

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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