The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee picks recession dates by looking at many variables, the four most important of which are industrial production, manufacturing and trade sales, nonfarm employment, and real personal income

These variables are known as A) leading indicators.
B) coincident indicators.
C) lagging indicators.
D) recession indicators.

B

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a. ability-to-pay principle. b. concept of horizontal equity. c. idea of fiscal federalism. d. benefits principle.

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