Considering the growing potential threat of terrorists’ attacks worldwide, the President of an economy approved a fiscal spending of $24 billion to upgrade its national defense.  a. Starting in a long-run equilibrium, draw a well-labelled AD-SRAS-LRAS diagram for the economy.  b. Use the same diagram in part (a) to show the SR effect on the economy’s GDP (Y), the price level, and unemployment when the federal government increases its spending on national defense.  c. To stabilize the price level and the economy’s GDP, what kind of monetary policy should the economy

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Considering the growing potential threat of terrorists’ attacks worldwide, the President of an economy
approved a fiscal spending of $24 billion to upgrade its national defense. 
a. Starting in a long-run equilibrium, draw a well-labelled AD-SRAS-LRAS diagram for the economy. 
b. Use the same diagram in part (a) to show the SR effect on the economy’s GDP (Y), the price level, and
unemployment when the federal government increases its spending on national defense. 
c. To stabilize the price level and the economy’s GDP, what kind of monetary policy should the economy
adopt? Illustrate your answer in the same diagram in (a). 

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