What is a primary tool that monetary policy uses to affect the overall economy?
a. tax rates
b. foreign monetary investment
c. government spending
d. the discount rate
Answer: d
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The organization of Germany's Federal Republic has been successful in establishing a stable democracy in all of the following ways EXCEPT
a. it has permitted successful alterations in power. b. it has helped to assure that undemocratic right-wing parties receive little support. c. its system of divided powers has kept policy change slow. d. its introduction of a weak presidency has minimized potential abuse of executive power. e. its allowances for emergency powers have minimized legislative deadlocks.
Through citizen involvement, which one of the following has the United States NOT achieved?
A) ?The nation and institutions are amazingly stable. B) ?Citizens are able to petition government and criticize it. C) ?Americans enjoy substantial freedom and are protected from abuses of power by the government. D) ?A society has been created with high voter turnout. E) Americans show more tolerance of different political views than most other democracies.
The purpose of the Declaratory Act was to
A) declare the king as the head of the Church of England. B) clarify England's position on the state of British rule over the colonies. C) establish an archbishop in the colonies, in order to maintain the Anglican faith as the official faith within the colonies. D) create additional forms of revenues for England. E) raise revenue to pay England's war debts.
The foreign policy tools available to the president include all of the following EXCEPT
A. summit meetings. B. declarations of war. C. diplomatic recognition. D. executive agreements. E. presidential doctrines.