In February 2009, President Obama threw his administration’s weight behind a $787 billion fiscal stimulus plan that was
a. based on liberal economic theory.
b. a strategy of devolution.
c. a solution based on supply-side economics.
d. a quintessentially Keynesian solution.
e. a using the principle of trickle-down economics.
ANS: D
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James David Barber
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