During the 1930s, Those Counties

During the 1930s, those counties

A) that abandoned the gold standard early in the Depression fared much worse than those that clung to gold.
B) that clung to their gold parities found themselves forced to lower interest rates and expand their money supplies in order to avoid large gold losses.
C) that clung to their gold parities found themselves forced to lower interest rates and expand their money supplies in order to avoid large gold surpluses.
D) that abandoned the gold standard and floated their exchange rates were able to avoid deflation.