What group of people might be considered part of the aristocracy?

What similarity can be drawn between state and national governments?

The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century british politics: a. had mainly a civic and social quality. b. prompted two eighteenth-century leaders, joseph mccarthy and hugh mccarran, to demand independence for ireland. c. brought great wealth and power to its main voice, john locke. d. was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being. e. had the same meaning as liberalism in twenty-first-century american politics.

Why was there a crisis in the savings and loan industry? how much money was lost and who paid for it?