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Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserves (Crash Course)
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Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserves (Crash Course)
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18 Questions

1. What two things help keep a banking system healthy?

2. What is monetary policy?

3. Who is the God of the US Federal Reserve?

4. What is a liquid asset?

5. IF the Feds increase the reserve requirement, what happens to the money supply?

6. When interest rates are high, what do people usually do?

7. What is the nickname for the Federal Reserves?

8. What is the central bank of the US?

9. The fraction of money the banks must hold in reserves is called what?

10. What is the central bank of Europe?

11. In banks, what are excess reserves?

12. If the Fed wants to speed up the economy, what should they do to the money supply?

13. How does the Fed manipulate the interest rates?

14. When interest rates are low people are more likely to do what?

15. What happened to many people during the Great Depression when they came to take their money out of the bank?

16. Central banks make sure banks have enough money in them so they can avoid what?

17. What is the name for the price of borrowing money?

18. What is the term called for then the Fed buys and sells short term government bonds?