Week 5 Reading Quiz Chs. 15 and 17

A  Decreasing government spending and/or increasing taxes

B  By only increasing taxes

C  Lowering taxes and raising government spending

D  Increasing government spending and/or decreasing taxes

A  Expansionary monetary policy

B  Contractionary monetary policy

C  Expansionary fiscal policy

D  Contractionary fiscal policy

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

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

C  The unemployment rate is declining.

D  The rate of inflation is declining.

A  State Legislatures

B  Congress

C  The President

D  The President and Congress

A  Private consumption

B  Foreign firms dominating the domestic economy

C  Government borrowing and spending

D  Excessive importation of goods and services

A  Decreasing in government spending and increasing in taxes

B  Increasing investment and increasing government spending

C  Increasing consumption and decreasing taxes

D  Decreasing in government spending and decreasing taxes

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

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

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

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

A  Automatic stabilizers; current retirees using funds from current contributions

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

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

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

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

B  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.

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

D  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.

A  Food Stamps

B  Unemployment Insurance

C  Stimulus Package

D  Personal Income Tax

A  Neither monetary or fiscal policy

B  Monetary but not fiscal policy

C  Fiscal but not monetary policy

D  Both monetary and fiscal policy

A  Decrease aggregate demand

B  Increase aggregate demand

C  Decrease aggregate supply

D  Increase aggregate supply

A  It decreases

B  It doubles

C  It increases

D  There is no change

A  $400 million

B  $200 billion

C  $400 billion

D  $200 million

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

B  There are 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks

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

D  There are 14 members of the Federal Reserve Board

A  The president

B  U. S. Congress

C  Member banks

D  Board of Governors of the Fed

A  Issue more loans

B  Raise interest rates

C  Sell off government bonds

A  Reserve requirements

B  Open market operations

C  Discount rate

D  Federal funds rate

A  Higher interest rates and lower GDP

B  Lower interest rates and lower GDP.

C  Lower interest rates and higher GDP

D  Higher interest rates and higher GDP

A  Lending to nonbanks

B  Increasing the discount rate

C  Purchasing government securities

D  Selling government securities