Interest payments on the national debt are projected to be about ____% by 2046.

The most common type of macroeconomic imbalance is overly expansionary fiscal policies that create large government budget deficits, often financed by a high growth rate of the money supply

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Interest rate fluctuations

A) are usually not considered to be of much importance and are largely ignored by the Fed. B) have the paradoxical effect of increasing the rate of economic growth. C) make it difficult for households and firms to plan for the future. D) have largely been eliminated by the Fed during the past two decades.