Are New Regulations Likely to Prevent a Future Financial Crisis

question 156

Multiple Choice

Are new regulations likely to prevent a future financial crisis?

• A) Yes, regulatory agencies have been effective at anticipating the secondary effects of new regulations.
• B) Yes, industries that were highly regulated were unaffected by the Crisis of 2008.
• C) No, regulators have a poor record with regard to foreseeing future problems.
• D) No, current regulations could have prevented the Crisis of 2008, but were largely ignored.

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A property of a physical body, indicating the amount of matter it contains and a measure of its resistance to acceleration when a force is applied.

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Changes affecting the form of a chemical substance, but not its chemical composition, such as melting or freezing.

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Substances that have a high mass per unit volume, often characterized by compactness of molecular or atomic structure.