Which of the following is responsible for providing currency and cash to banks?
A. The Legislative Branch of government.
B. Comptroller of the Currency.
C. The Federal Reserve System.
D. The U.S. Treasury.
C. The Federal Reserve System.
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A) government tax and spend policies. B) an artificial lowering of interest rates through expansionary monetary policy. C) waves of irrational optimism and pessimism in the business community. D) a clash of interests among capitalists and laborers.
Which of the following is blamed for the lack of increased business investment spending on new factories and machinery during the 1930s?
(a) The new presence of government's large-scale economic activity caused business to lose some of its former confidence. (b) The general outlook stressed caution. (c) A much lower rate of population growth and family creation depressed the housing market. (d) All of the above.
In principle, a cap-and-trade program would
A) cause firms to generate more pollution than their allowed limits. B) cause firms to generate less pollution than their allowed limits. C) raise the production costs of all firms. D) lower the production costs of all firms.