In response to the financial crisis of 2007 and the ensuing recession, the Fed announced three rounds of "quantitative easing," where the Fed purchased billions of dollars of securities

What impact would quantitative easing have on the monetary base? A) The monetary base would increase.
B) The monetary base would decrease.
C) The monetary base would not change.
D) While the monetary base would change, it is impossible to predict in which direction.


A

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Macroeconomics is concerned with

A) individual business firms. B) specific industries. C) individual consumers. D) a nation's entire economy.

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a. Castro's Cuba b. Stalin's Soviet Union c. No nation has achieved Marx's vision of communist society. d. Mao's China

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