Many Economists Favored Using Discretionary Fiscal Policy During the Great

question 150

True/False

Many economists favored using discretionary fiscal policy during the Great Recession because monetary policy could not be used when interest rates were near zero.

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Definitions:

Lowering the Price

A strategy in which a seller reduces the cost of a product or service to attract more buyers or drive sales volume.

Monopoly Firms

Entities that are the sole providers of a product or service in a market, facing no competition.

Downward-Sloping

A term often used in economics to describe a line or curve on a graph that demonstrates a decrease in one variable as another increases.

Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity of the good that consumers are willing and able to purchase at each price.