What tools of monetary and fiscal policy were most effective in getting us out of the Great Recession (2008)? How about our current economic downturn (beginning in 2020 from the COVID-19 pandemic)? Describe any innovative and/or strategic tools of monetary and fiscal policy that were introduced in either economic downturn. What has been the effect of these policies on our national debt? (Use the data from the Real Time Data Analysis on the Federal debt to GDP ratio.)