Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A) were a fictitious American couple used by the media as an example of overspending.
B) were U.S. government corporations that made more money available to lenders and borrowers preceding the crisis by selling loans to investors.
C) were agencies that warned the public about the dangers of subprime loans before the crisis.
D) were corporations that requested loans from the European Union to stabilize Ireland's failing economy.
B
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The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not people and therefore had no rights, in
A) Barron v. Baltimore. B) Dennis v. United States. C) Mapp v. Ohio. D) Gideon v. Wainwright. E) Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Texas taxpayer dissatisfaction and anger in recent years has been mostly due to __________
a. an increase in grocery sales tax rates b. increases in ad valorem property taxes, particularly school taxes c. changes in business taxes d. the severance tax
Which of the following scholars argues that democracy and market capitalism is the "end of history"?
a. Carl von Clausewitz b. Robert Kagan c. Peter Singer d. Francis Fukuyama e. Samuel Huntington
In _____, the Court invalidated a federal requirement that local law enforcement officers perform background checks on prospective handgun purchasers
a. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) b. Printz v. United States (1997) c. New York v. United States (1992) d. None of the above is true.