At the Start of 2013, the U

question 202

Multiple Choice

At the start of 2013, the U.S. government predicted that economic growth would rise by 2016 and that the government's deficit would also increase. The government therefore was predicting that in 2016 the cyclical deficit would ________ and the structural deficit would ________.

• A) increase; increase
• B) decrease; increase
• C) increase; decrease
• D) decrease; decrease

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