The ________ Easing That the Fed Created During the 2008

question 278

Multiple Choice

The ________ easing that the Fed created during the 2008 financial crisis was designed to stimulate ________.

• A) credit; private banks to increase their lending
• B) credit; the federal government to make loans directly to home buyers
• C) credit; the federal government to make loans directly to small businesses
• D) quantitative; private banks to increase their lending to home buyers
• E) quantitative; decreased in the required reserve ratio

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Definitions:

Morality

Concerns the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper.

Historical Significance

The importance of an event, object, or person in affecting the course or understanding of history, meriting attention and study.

Cotton

A natural fiber harvested from the cotton plant, which became the foundation of a lucrative agricultural industry in the southern United States, largely based on slave labor before the Civil War.