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Chap 24 Terms
WSHS - C/E - Chapter 24 Terms - Boyd/Tedder
Question | Answer |
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coin | metallic form of money such as pennies, nickels, and dimes |
currency | both coins and paper money |
commercial bank | a financial institution that offers full banking services to individuals and businesses |
savings and loan association | financial institutions that traditionally loaned money to people buying homes |
credit union | nonprofit service cooperative that accepts deposits, makes loans, and provides other financial services |
obvious | easily found, seen, or understood |
medium | a means of doing |
central bank | an institution that lends money to other banks; also the place where the government does its banking business |
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) | the most powerful committee of the Fed, because it makes the decisions that affect the economy as a whole by manipulating the money supply |
monetary policy | policy that involves changing the rate of growth of the money supply in circulation in order to affect the cost and availability of credit |
discount rate | the interest rate the Fed charges on its loans |
reserve | a certain percentage of deposits that banks have to set aside as cash in their own vaults or as deposits in their Federal Reserve district bank |
open market operations | purchase or sale of US government bonds and Treasury bills |
manipulate | to handle with skill |
contract | to become smaller |
checking account | an account in which deposited money can be withdrawn at any time by writing a check |
savings account | an account in which customers receive interest based on how much money they have deposited |
certificate of deposit (CD) | timed deposit that states the amount of the deposit, maturity, and rate of interest being paid |
initial | the very first |
principal | the most important |
behalf | in the interest of |