The main responsibility of the Federal Reserve System is
a. making all travel arrangements for nonmilitary government personnel.
b. making monetary policy.
c. making decisions about spending and taxes to reduce the size of the national debt.
d. conducting congressional oversight of the Treasury Department.
b. making monetary policy.
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If two populations are different on their population means and the inferential statistical test leads you to conclude that the populations are equivalent, you have
A) Made a Type I error. B) Made a Type II error. C) Drawn a correct inference. D) Inflated your alpha.
Which of the following helps to explain why the comprehensive constitutional reform efforts of the mid-1970s failed?
a. The delegates to the constitutional convention were ordinary citizens who did not understand the deficiencies of the Texas Constitution. b. The reform effort was predicated on the need to change provisions that were hindering economic growth, but the Texas economy took off in the 1970s under the existing constitution. c. Texas could not reform its constitution without obtaining "preclearance" from the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act. d. Special interests fought against reform because they did not want to give up the protections that the old constitutionafforded them.
As a result of citizen concern that federal laws around gun control were too lax, the state passed policy that required background checks for purchase of a handgun. This is an example of a(n) _______.
a. ideology b. latent preference c. elite theory d. tradeoff
Following World War II (1939-1945), _____ became the dominant form of communication
A) magazines B) radio C) newsletters D) print newspapers E) broadcast television