Financial Assets
Real /Nominal Interest Rates
Money
Money, Money
Banking
Money Market
Monetary Policy
Loanable Funds Market
100

giving up the chance to earn money through interest (by holding cash)

What is opportunity cost (of holding cash)

100

Nominal - Inflation

What is the Fisher equation (real interest rate)
100

aggregate that includes  total amount of currency in circulation or on reserve by commercial banks

What is the monetary base


100

The United States' Central bank

What is the Federal Reserve

100

Reserves, Excess Reserves, and Loans are on this side of the bank balance sheet

What are assets to banks (on a bank balance sheet)

100

the Y axis in the money market

What is the nominal interest rate

100
The type of monetary policy that isuesd to correct a recessionary gap

What is expansionary monetary policy? 

100

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang travels across the world riding this giant, six-legged flying sky bison.

Who is Appa?


200

The measure of how fast an asset can be turned into cash

What is liquidity?

200

Directed by Greta Gerwig, this 2023 blockbuster became a global phenomenon while draped head-to-toe in neon pink.

What is Barbie?

200

This type of money has no other main use except for being used as money. 

What is fiat money?

200

Minimum amount of cash that a bank MUST hold

what are reserve requirements /what is the required reserve rate

200

First introduced in 1986, this blue-packaged Doritos flavor remains one of the brand's most popular products.

What is Cool Ranch?

200

Regina George and the Plastics rule the hallways of North Shore High School in this comedy movie.

What is Mean Girls?

200

Named after a basic table seasoning, this term describes someone who is overly bitter or annoyed after losing a game (like Gillespardy)

What is Salty?

200

The vertical axis label that lets you know this is the loanable funds graph. 

What is real interest rate?
300

In 2023, this purple McDonald's mascot sparked a viral horror-style TikTok trend after users drank his anniversary shake.

Grimace

300

The expected real inflation rate when banks charge 5% interest on all loans and the expected inflation rate is 2%?

What is 3%?

300

Aggregate that includes money in circulation, demand deposits, savings accounts, small denomination time deposits and retail money market funds

What is M2

300

buying or selling government debt (though bonds)

what are open market operations

300

1/2 BANKRUPT!!!! You lose half of your money. 

Sorry. 

300

These are the three tools of monetary policy in a limited reserves system.

What are the discount rate, the required reserves ratio, and open market operations?

300

In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales attends this private Brooklyn boarding school.

What is Visiona Academy?

300

When the government is running a deficit and drives up interest rates.  This leads to reduced investment spending.

What is Crowding Out?

400

This streamer won Streamer of the Year multiple times and broke Twitch records with his 30-day subathon featuring guest appearances from celebrities like Kevin Hart.

Who is Kai Cenat?

400

This sci-fi epic features giant sandworms on the desert planet Arrakis and stars Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides.

What is Dune?

400

If you move $500 from your checking account to purchase a CD, _______ is unchanged while _______ decreases.

(What is/are) M2 and M1 respectively 

400

This former president is on the 100,000 dollar bill. 

Who is Woodrow Wilson

400

East High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, serves as the setting for this iconic Disney Channel franchise.

What is High School Musical?

400

This joke medical diagnosis describes the dramatic drop in academic effort common among graduating seniors.

What is Senioritis?

400

The tools of monetary policy in an ample reserves system are the discount rate and the interest on reserves. Together, they are called this name

What is administered interest rates?

400

Known for its guilt-tripping passive-aggressive push notifications, this language-learning app features a persistent green owl mascot.

What is Duolingo?

500

The relationship between interest rates and bond values

What is an inverse relationship

500

The new nominal interest rate when Vern has a fixed interest CD with a nominal interest rate of 7% with no expected inflation.  If inflation is now expected to be 3%

What is 7%

500

This Canadian artist sang hits like "Blinding Lights" and performed the 2021 Super Bowl Halftime Show in an all-red blazer.

Who is The Weeknd?

500

To travel to the Nether in Minecraft, you must build a frame out of this durable dark block and light it on fire.

What is Obsidian?

500

1/rr

What is the money multiplier formula

500

GROUP QUESTION FOR ALL GROUPS - Your whole group can work on the answer. Bring me the answer on your board when finished. 

For Contractionary Monetary Policy Limited reserves- Walk through all the connections ending with unemployment. 

Decrease the Money Supply; Leads to higher interest rates; leads to lower investment; leads to lower aggregate demand, leads to lower price level and output, leads to increased unemployment. 
500

The Expansionary monetary policy that occurs in an ample reserves system.

What is a decrease in administered interest rates/ policy rate?

500

The Krusty Krab's arch-nemesis Plankton operates this struggling restaurant directly across the street.  

What is the Chum Bucket?