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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Car Manufacturers

Which manufacturer produced the Volkswagen Beetle, the car officially called the Type 1?

Answer

Volkswagen

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Car Manufacturers

Which automaker introduced the Ford Mustang at the 1964 New York World's Fair?

Answer

Ford

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

What economic rule links a recession’s rise in unemployment to a fall in real GDP?

Answer

Okun's law

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

Which 1930s U.S. banking legislation separated commercial banking from investment banking?

Answer

Glass–Steagall Act

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

Which country experienced the 2008 financial crisis known as the Icelandic financial crisis?

Answer

Iceland

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

In the United States, what annual CPI inflation rate was reported for June 2022?

Answer

9.1%

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

What was the name of the U.S. emergency program created in 2008 to buy troubled financial assets?

Answer

Troubled Asset Relief Program

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• Inflation And Recession

In the Great Depression in the United States, what unemployment rate was recorded in 1933?

Answer

24.9%

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

Which country introduced the first modern inflation-targeting regime in 1990?

Answer

New Zealand

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

What is the economic term for a period of falling inflation rather than falling prices?

Answer

Disinflation

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

Which European country experienced the Great Inflation of the 1920s after World War I, issuing the papiermark before currency reform?

Answer

Germany

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Inflation And Recession

What was the name of the U.S. economic policy package that combined tax cuts and spending cuts under President Ronald Reagan?

Answer

Reaganomics

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