2022, Set 2, Question 3 · Short · 5 points
Cutting the national debt and interest rates
Pick a fiscal action that reduces the national debt, show its effect in the loanable funds market, and explain what the interest rate change does to short-run aggregate demand and to potential output.
This exam had three free-response questions in a 60 minute section (a 10 minute reading period and 50 minutes of writing), worth 10, 5 and 5 points, with students told to spend about half the time on Question 1 and split the rest between Questions 2 and 3. College Board's scoring guidelines label Question 1 Long and Questions 2 and 3 Short. The current exam has 3 free-response questions in 60 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
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