Money!
Banking and the Money Supply
Monetary Policies
Monetary Policy2
Landmines
100

The United States Dollar is an example of this type of money?

What is a fiat currency?

100

The money multiplier formula.

What is 1/rr?

100

The vertical money supply curve Sm is controlled by this government body

What is the Federal Reserve?

100

The current banking system, post 2008 recession

What is Ample Reserves

100

This California park home to the world's largest tree, General Sherman

What is Sequoia National Park

200

 A phenomena that may increase or decrease the demand for money.

Answers vary.

200

If the legal reserve requirement is 25 percent, the value of the money multiplier is…

What is 4?

200

Decreasing Interest on Reserves 

What is expansionary monetary policy in ample reserves

200

The name for the rate that changes in monetary policy (ample reserves)

What is the policy rate?

200

What was the most commonly used monetary policy tool by the federal reserve prior to 2008?

What are open market operations?

300

The three classic functions of money?

What is the store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange


300
Where do banks keep their excess reserves? two possible answers.
What is in their vaults and the Federal Reserve?
300

Two mechanisms of contractionary monetary policy

Answers vary.

300

Used in response to high inflation, ample reserves.

What is raising interest on reserves?

300

The family of the animal kingdom that includes Gazelles, and Goats

What are Bovidae?

400
When a financial transaction or trade is made using a currency. That currency is acting as a...
What is a medium of exchange?
400
Banks panics and runs were virtually eliminated by the introduction of this government entity.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
400
Reserves, the money supply, and interest rates are most likely to change in which of the following ways when the Fed lowers the discount rate? Give an answer for each.
What are Reserves increase, the money supply increases, and interest decrease.
400

if the demand for money increases, what would the fed do to restore rates.

What is an expansionary monetary policy?

400

If the fed buys bonds on the open market, how will bank reserves be impacted?

What is they will increase.

500

The measure M2 currency includes all of these.

What is M2 includes M1, savings deposits, money market mutual funds and other time deposits.

500

Suppose the Federal Reserve buys $200,000 worth of securities on the open market. If the reserve requirement is 10 percent and the banks hold no excess reserves, what is the maximum change to the total money supply? And what happens to the Price of Bonds?

What is 2 million dollars? Price Increases?

500

In Ample reserves, the curve that the Federal Reserve Shifts through its policies

What is the the Demand for Bank Reserves?

500

Bond prices have risen, what policy has the fed taken? 

What is 1 of the Expansionary policies?

500

The state bird of California

What is the california Quail?

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