A good method of evaluating a country's amount of national debt, according to the authors, is
A) looking at the raw amount of debt, without any fancy statistics.
B) looking at the amount of debt controlling for inflation.
C) dividing the debt as a percentage of the amount of U.S. currency in active circulation.
D) dividing the debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.
E) comparing the net debt load today to the net debt load in the same month, but ten years ago.
D
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a. Texas exceeds the national average of children in poverty b. Texas has a much lower rate of child poverty than most other states c. Texas's rate of children in poverty is similar to that of other states d. Texas poverty rates for children have improved a great deal over the last decade e. none of these
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a. Discovery of newer and easier ways to extract oil b. Rising demand for oil in the Global South c. Restriction of oil supply by OPEC d. All of these will contribute to rising oil prices.
What conflict is summed up by the phrase "Jihad Versus McWorld"?
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California's legislature is
a. unicameral. b. bicameral. c. tricameral. d. biannual.