America and the Global Economy Answers

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Which two auto companies received help from the US government during the crisis of 2008?

Ford and Toyota

Chrysler and Ford

GM and Chrysler

GM and Ford

What happened after bank lending slowed in the United States in the mid-2000s?

American housing prices began to drop.

US and global stock markets collapsed.

Homeowners could not pay mortgages.

The American auto industry collapsed.

Poverty reduction is the main goal of the

Group of 20.

International Monetary Fund.

World Bank.

World Trade Organization.

International economic organizations try to help the global economy by

making it easier to communicate quickly.

managing competition between nations.

keeping peace between nations.

regulating consumer prices.

Improvements to transportation have

lowered the costs of shipping goods between countries.

reduced the number of tariffs on shipped products.

raised service fees on shipping goods between countries.

resulted in fewer safety regulations governing shipments.

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