When implementing monetary policy, the variable the Federal Reserve watches most closely is the

All of the following statements are examples of normative economic analysis except

A) as the demand for emergency room nurses increases, more students are choosing to enroll in nursing school. B) to provide better care, doctors should be required to limit the number of patients they see each day. C) people should be able to choose whether they want to purchase health insurance. D) prescription drugs are too expensive and the government needs to regulate prices in the pharmaceutical industry.

According to your authors, America's Great Depression of the 1930s was evidence of

A) an unstable free market system B) rampant greed among entrepreneurs. C) a cluster or accumulation of errors. D) antagonistic interests among the propertied and nonpropertied classes. E) all of the above.