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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do SWFs refer to?

2. When was Scott Brown born?

3. In what year was Congress warned in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about a new world economic order?

4. What is an independent self-regulatory organization and watchdog of the commodities and futures industry in the United States?

5. When was Barack Obama named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What administration was responsible for easing regulations on the stock market in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 5, what does the author write of the correlation between decreasing taxes and rising prices?

3. How does Taibbi conclude Chapter 4? What does the author remark regarding the motivations of the wealthy?

4. What was index speculation comprised of, as described in Chapter 4?

5. How did the power structure of Congress change with Scott Brown's election in Chapter 6: The Trillion-dollar Band-Aid - Health Care Reform?

6. What correlation is there between bankruptcies in the United States and the current health care system, as described in Chapter 6?

7. Who was responsible for purchasing Chicago's parking meters, as described in Chapter 5?

8. How are SFWs defined in Chapter 5: The Outsourced Highway - Wealth Funds?

9. What argument did Goldman-Sachs present for lessening regulation, as discussed in Chapter 4?

10. What led up to OPEC's oil embargo in the 1970s, as described in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Glass-Steagall Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Law. When were these regulations enacted and what impact did they have on finance?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the actions of AIG and Joe Cassano in the period before the 2008 crash. What risks was AIG taking?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the changes in speculative trading during the George W. Bush administration. What did these changes mean for Goldman-Sachs?

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