8. In early 2001 investment spending sharply declined in the United States. In the two months following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, consumption also declined.

Use AD-AS analysis to show the two impacts on real GDP.

LO12.6 9. last word What were the monetary and fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession? What were some of the reasons suggested for why those policy responses didn’t seem to have as large an effect as anticipated on unemployment and GDP growth?