As the new president of the United States, you are visiting a local supermarket on a tour. You notice that the cost of bananas is extremely high. One of your advisers explains to you that the US imports over 99 percent of its bananas each year because bananas grow better in other countries. The adviser tells you that the US has quotas and tariffs on banana imports from other countries. What steps could you take to lower the prices of bananas so that they are more affordable? Describe two changes you would make to trade agreements, quotas, and tariffs.

Globalization is the process of the world becoming more connected. like any process that involves economic choices, it has positive and negative consequences. (essay prompt)

How was mussolini able to gain power in italy? he played to the prejudices of the italians. he fought off hitler’s attempt to annex italy. he led a coup to take over a weakened government. he proposed new ideas to solve the economic crisis.

“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?