Multiple Choice
If the Fed wishes to decrease long- term investment spending, it must:
A) cut the current short- term interest rate.
B) convince the public that the expected future short- term rates would be low.
C) raise the short- term interest rates and the expected short- term future rates.
D) A and B are correct.
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