Most excise taxes are

A risk averse person's utility of wealth curve has a

A) positive slope and becomes steeper to the right. B) positive slope and becomes flatter to the right. C) negative slope and becomes steeper to the right. D) negative slope and becomes flatter to the right.

The Federal Reserve Bank attempted to deal with the sluggish aggregate demand that followed the housing market crash and subsequent financial crisis through:

A. contractionary monetary policy. B. expansionary fiscal policy. C. expansionary monetary policy. D. contractionary fiscal policy.