If the cost of the Department of Agriculture's minimum food budget for two people is $2,000 per year, the official poverty line for a family of two would be

A few U.S. commercial banks are allowed to have "section 20 affiliates" that can

A) underwrite corporate debt and equity. B) operate in foreign markets. C) branch nationwide regardless of state laws. D) own majority shares in other banks.

Government-backed deposit insurance increases the ________

A) Willamette torsion effect B) adverse selection problem C) moral hazard problem D) the prudential contagion problem