The largest component of the consumer price index is ________.

A. medical care
B. transportation
C. apparel
D. housing


Answer: D

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The speculative motive for holding money reflects the behavior of people who hold money

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The joining of two or more firms competing in the same market with the same good or service:

a. Stockholm enterprise b. partnership c. vertical merger d. horizontal merger e. Pineapple Ring

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In September of 2007, the Federal Reserve Board Open Market Committee voted to lower interest rates for the first time that year. Explain how lower interest rates affect the aggregate demand curve

What will be an ideal response?

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