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___ 10. The Fed’s most important tool for controlling the money supply is:<br />

a. printing more currency<br />

b. changing the discount rate<br />

c. open market operations<br />

d. changing the required-reserve ratio<br />

___ 11. During the recession caused by the bursting of the housing bubble:<br />

a. Real GDP decreased by over 5% for the year 2008<br />

b. the unemployment rate more than doubled from November of 2007 to October of<br />

2009<br />

c. Both of the above<br />

d. Neither of the above<br />

___ 12. From July of 1996 to July of 2012:<br />

a. home prices increased by a steady 5% per year<br />

b. home prices increased by over 121% and then decreased by over 27%<br />

c. home prices increased by about 60%<br />

d. Both b. and c. above<br />

___ 13. During the housing bubble, mortgage interest rates were low:<br />

a. because of the high savings rate in the U.S.<br />

b. because of an influx of savings entering the U.S. from other countries<br />

c. Both of the above<br />

d. Neither of the above<br />

___ 14. The low short-term interest rates from 2002 to 2004:<br />

a. encouraged the use of adjustable rate mortgages<br />

b. forced mortgage lenders to deleverage, thus triggering the bursting of the housing<br />

bubble<br />

c. Both of the above<br />

d. Neither of the above<br />

___ 15. Leveraging:<br />

a. increased the financing available for mortgage lending and thus contributed to rising<br />

home prices<br />

b. increased the impact of the bursting of the housing bubble because the deleveraging<br />

contributed to falling home prices<br />

c. Both of the above<br />

d. Neither of the above<br />

___ 16. Beginning in 1996, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:<br />

a. were required to hold an increasing percentage of mortgage loans to lower-income<br />

households in their portfolios<br />

b. began to relax the standards that mortgages had to meet to be classified as<br />

“conforming”<br />

c. Both of the above<br />

d. Neither of the above<br />

___ 17. The greater competition in the mortgage market caused by the internet:<br />

a. meant that home buyers were no longer limited to borrowing locally<br />

b. led to an increase in the average fee on a mortgage loan<br />

c. forced all mortgage lenders to adopt stricter standards for their loans<br />

d. All of the above<br />

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