Discussion on fiscal and monetary policy

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Question1. Explicitly define both fiscal and monetary policy.

Question2. The 5-recent or historical government actions dealing with the macroeconomic policy. For each scenario estimate if it represents fiscal policy or monetary policy, and describe your reasoning.

[A] President Obama has proposed a budget for the next year and the House of Representatives has proposed their own budget that has major differences with the President's.

[B] To avoid a stalemate with Congress that could have prevented any new legislation from being passed, the President and Congress, in December 2010, reached an agreement on extending the Bush era tax cuts for an additional two years.

Question3. You have learned that Keynes and Friedman sharply differed on some basic ideas of how the Federal government should conduct economic policy. Which of the two economists do you agree with more, and explain

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