Which of the following policy measures created an Office of Credit Ratings at the SEC with its own staff and the authority to fine credit-rating agencies and to deregister an agency if it produces bad ratings?
A) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
B) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
C) Global Legal Settlement of 2002
D) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
E) Riegle-Neal Act of 1994
A
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If net foreign investment in the United States is positive, how must national saving and domestic investment be related? (Assume that the capital account is zero and net transfers are zero.)
A) Domestic investment can be greater than or less than national saving. B) Domestic investment must be greater than national saving. C) Domestic investment must be less than national saving. D) Domestic investment and national saving must also be positive.
In the Keynesian model, suppose the Fed sets a target for the real interest rate. If the IS curve shifts down and to the left, and the Fed wants to keep output unchanged in the short run and the price level unchanged in the long run, it will
A) shift the LR curve up. B) not shift the LR curve. C) shift the LR curve down. D) shift the IS curve up and to the right.
If the income multiplier is 2 and the equilibrium national income level is $8,000 billion, then a $500 billion decrease in aggregate expenditure will cause
a. the aggregate expenditure curve to shift to the right and national income to increase by $1,000 billion b. the aggregate expenditure curve to shift to the left and national income to decrease by $1,000 billion c. the aggregate expenditure curve to shift to the right and national income to increase by $2,000 billion d. the aggregate expenditure curve to remain unchanged but an upward movement along the curve that shows a $2,000 increase in national income e. the aggregate expenditure curve to remain unchanged but an upward movement along the curve that shows a $2,000 decrease in national income
At $2 a container, a grocery store supplies 100 containers of organic yogurt, but sells only 72 containers of this product. The grocery store has a ______.
a. shortage of 28 b. shortage of 18 c. surplus of 28 d. surplus of 18