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A-LevelEconomicsMacroeconomic PolicyMay/June 2020Paper 4 Q525 Marks

In January 2018 tax reductions were introduced in the US, and the Federal Reserve Bank (the US central bank) announced it would raise interest rates later in the year. Discuss how these policies may cause conflicts for a government in trying to achieve its macroeconomic aims.

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About This A-Level Economics Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Economics (9708) May/June 2020 examination, Paper 4 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Macroeconomic Policy and is worth 25 marks.

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