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Terms- Unit 5

The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy

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purpose of federal reserve system promote economic growth using full employment and price stability
ways federal reserve system accomplishes regulating, supervising, and examining the banking system; stabilizing and limiting risk to the financial system; provide financial services for the federal government and banking commercial banks
monetary policy actions taken by the central bank to manage interest rates and the money supply in pursuit of macroeconomic goals
bank holding companies control one or more banks
fiscal agent sells, redeems, and pays interest on government securities
check clearing the processes of removing money from the bank account of the person who wrote the check and delivering it to the account of the check's recipient
ACH (automated clearing house) transfers transfers between payers' and payees' accounts carried out without the use of checks on a secure electronic funds-transfer network
monetary policy meant to moderate the peaks and valleys of business cycles
easy money policy increase the money supply
tight money policy decreases the money supply
to increase interest rates sell treasuries
to decrease interest rates buy treasuries
federal funds rate interest rate that commercial banks charge one another for short-term loans
discount rate interest rate that the Fed charges financial institutions for short-term loans
Reserve Requirements percentage of demand deposits that banks must keep
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