Personal Consumption Expenditures Include

question 188

Multiple Choice

Personal consumption expenditures include

• A) expenditures by households on goods and services produced in the United States and the rest of the world.
• B) expenditures by households on goods and services produced only in the United States.
• C) the purchase of used goods and new goods.
• D) the purchase of new homes.

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