Ashish comes to work looking exhausted almost every day. He is a new father and the baby is not sleeping well. James, his manager, asks Ashish to change the number of documents that the team has processed for the month so that the report shows the quota was met. Ashish agrees without putting up much of fight. James takes advantage of the fact that Ashish is sleep-deprived and will be more likely to engage in unethical behavior.

The federal reserve took an expansionary approach during the crisis. this was done by expanding the money supply and boosting liquidity. this can be seen in the fed's actions of lending to banks, purchasing securities, and lowering the federal funds rate in order to lower overall interest rates. the fed's goal was to increase consumer spending and overall liquidity within the system, and they pursued this by expanding the supply of liquid money.