Based solely on the graph showing the effective federal funds rate, if you were a borrower with the goal of locking in a thirty-year mortgage with a very low interest rate, which of the following years would have been the best one to take out your loan?





a. 1970

b. 1975

c. 1981

d. 2009

d. 2009

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European agricultural practices perfectly served the colonists farming in the New World

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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