In the recession that started in 2008, the savings rate:
A. increased.
B. decreased.
C. stayed the same.
D. became negative.
A. increased.
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What will be an ideal response?
In the United States, an example of a common in-kind transfer would be:
A. public housing. B. earned income tax credit. C. Aid to Families with Dependent Children. D. All of these are in-kind transfers.
Believers in fixed rules maintain that
A. with accurate forecasts, we can see inflation coming at least one year ahead of time. B. the length of stabilization lags is not important because fiscal policy actions are taken quickly and the economy feels the effect on aggregate demand quickly. C. we should forget about discretionary policy and put the economy on autopilot, relying instead on automatic stabilizers and the economy’s self-correcting mechanism. D. the economy’s self-correcting mechanism is slow and not very reliable, even with automatic stabilizers.
Referring to Table 4.1, Box I should be filled with 
A. $150. B. $200. C. $115. D. $0.