Iwill mark brainliest if correct and explained after the housing market collapse in the late 2000s, the u. s. economy suffered a downturn. in what ways could the federal reserve reduce the size of this downturn? it could raise the interest rates to double what they were. it could decrease the interest rates on banks loans. it could buy and rebuild houses to create jobs. it could sell mortgages to improve housing market growth.

How important is it to have a powerful army and navy? give two reasons for your answer

Me with this psychology homework, i’m struggling with it.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?