What is the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy?

What will be an ideal response?

Fiscal policy involves changes in federal taxes and purchases and is implemented by Congress and the President. Monetary policy involves changes in the money supply and interest rates and is implemented by the Federal Reserve. Both are intended to achieve macroeconomic objectives.

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The belief that bank failures were regularly caused by fraud or the lack of sufficient bank capital explains, in part, the passage of

A) the National Bank Charter Amendments of 1918. B) the Garn-St. Germain Act of 1982. C) the National Bank Act of 1863. D) Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

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The term utility refers to the:

a. usefulness of a good in relation to its scarcity. b. necessity of a good. c. price of a good. d. number of goods a consumer has. e. pleasure or satisfaction a consumer receives upon consuming a good.

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