Week 5 Reading Quiz Chs. 15 and 17

A  Decreasing government spending and/or increasing taxes

B  Lowering taxes and raising government spending

C  Increasing government spending and/or decreasing taxes

D  By only increasing taxes

A  Expansionary fiscal policy

B  Contractionary monetary policy

C  Contractionary fiscal policy

D  Expansionary monetary policy

A  The unemployment rate is declining.

B  The rate of inflation is declining.

C  The government is receiving more money in taxes than it spends in a year.

D  The government is spending more money than it receives in taxes for a given year.

A  State Legislatures

B  Congress

C  The President

D  The President and Congress

A  Private consumption

B  Foreign firms dominating the domestic economy

C  Excessive importation of goods and services

D  Government borrowing and spending

A  Increasing consumption and decreasing taxes

B  Decreasing in government spending and increasing in taxes

C  Increasing investment and increasing government spending

D  Decreasing in government spending and decreasing taxes

A  Decrease taxes, increase transfer payments, and/or decrease government spending

B  Decrease taxes, decrease government spending, and/or decrease transfer payments

C  Increase taxes, decrease transfer payments, and/or decrease government spending.

D  Increase taxes, increase spending, and/or increase transfer payments

A  Contractionary fiscal policy; current older workers from funds deducted from younger workers

B  Progressive tax; to current retirees from funds from their past contributions

C  Automatic stabilizers; current retirees using funds from current contributions

D  Legislative lag; deducted from the higher-income groups to pay the lower income groups

A  One argument in support of a required balanced federal budget maintains that having a balanced budget each year would make the impacts of economic recessions less severe.

B  One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that the government does not have macroeconomic responsibilities

C  One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that sometimes it is necessary or beneficial to run large budget deficits in the short-run.

D  One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that this mandate cannot be added to the Constitution, and therefore, could not be enforced.

A  Stimulus Package

B  Unemployment Insurance

C  Food Stamps

D  Personal Income Tax

A  Monetary but not fiscal policy

B  Neither monetary or fiscal policy

C  Fiscal but not monetary policy

D  Both monetary and fiscal policy

A  Decrease aggregate demand

B  Increase aggregate demand

C  Increase aggregate supply

D  Decrease aggregate supply

A  It increases

B  It doubles

C  It decreases

D  There is no change

A  $200 million

B  $200 billion

C  $400 billion

D  $400 million

A  There are 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks

B  The FOMC is smaller in size than the Federal Reserve Board

C  The head of the Treasury also chairs the Federal Reserve Board

D  There are 14 members of the Federal Reserve Board

A  U. S. Congress

B  Member banks

C  The president

D  Board of Governors of the Fed

A  Sell off government bonds

B  Issue more loans

C  Raise interest rates

A  Discount rate

B  Open market operations

C  Federal funds rate

D  Reserve requirements

A  Lower interest rates and lower GDP.

B  Higher interest rates and higher GDP

C  Lower interest rates and higher GDP

D  Higher interest rates and lower GDP

A  Increasing the discount rate

B  Selling government securities

C  Lending to nonbanks

D  Purchasing government securities