The Main Argument for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Implemented

question 138

Multiple Choice

The main argument for the Troubled Asset Relief Program implemented by the U.S.government during the financial crisis of 2007-2008 was that

• A) without large financial intermediaries,future GDP would collapse.
• B) the government had an obligation to firms affected by the financial crisis.
• C) the funds would go to those citizens who needed help the most.
• D) government policies were responsible for the crisis in the first place.
• E) the cost of the program was relatively small.

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Definitions:

Conjunction

In linguistics, a term employed to link clauses or sentences together, or to arrange words within a single clause.

Disjuncts

Components in a logical expression that are combined with an OR operator, where the expression is true if at least one of the disjuncts is true.

Disjunction

An operation in logic that returns true when a minimum of one input is true.

Tautologies

Statements that are true under any possible valuation of their components in logic.