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The Federal Reserve can ____ and ____ securities from

banks to influence the supply of money.

• Sell

• Shift

• Buy

• Lower

Selling securities give banks ____ money to lend.

• More

• Less

• Optional

• Leeway

Changing the money supply affects the _______

• The consumers

• Economy

• CIA

• Federal Funds Rate

Banks lend each other money that is stored by the ?

• World bank

• Federal Reserve

• Bank

• Area 51

_____the money supply _____ the rates that

banks charge each other.

• Increasing

• Lower

• Decrease

• Greater

When the Fed loans money to banks, the

bank’s reserve balances ?

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stays the same

• Area 51

The interest rate on these loans is usually

called the ?

• Account rate

• Nonaccount rate

• discount rate

• Area51rate

The interest rate on these loans' official name ?

• Central credit rate

• Local Credit rate

• CIA

•  primary credit rate

Lowering this rate signals that the Federal

Reserve is ____, or ___, the

supply of money and credit.

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• Loosening

• Gripping

___ the rate signals a policy of tightening

the supply of money and credit.

• Lowering

• Raising

• Staying the same

• Area 51