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In the United States, who has the responsibility of using interest rates to control the supply of money and affect the rate of inflation?
 
  a. Congress
  b. the Federal Reserve Board
  c. the president
 d. the Council of Economic Advisers

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The 2008 economic collapse in the United States was the worst economic event in U.S. history since __________.
 
  a. the Great Recession
 b. the Great Depression
  c. the Stagflation Decades
  d. the 1883 Depression



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

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