A bank has excess reserves of $1,000 and demand deposit liabilities of $80,000 when the reserve requirement is 20 percent. If the reserve requirement is lowered to 10 percent, the bank's excess reserves will be
A) $1,000.
B) $8,000.
C) $9,000.
D) $17,000.
C
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Refer to Figure 17-2. Suppose the economy is at point C in the figure above. If workers adjust their expectations of inflation, which of the following will be true?
A) Workers and firms expect inflation to be 1%. B) The short-run Phillips curve will shift to the right. C) The natural rate of unemployment is 6%. D) The economy will move from C to A. E) The short-run Phillips curve will shift to the left.
The National Restaurant Association states that the restaurant industry has an economic effect of more than $1.7 trillion annually in the United States,
with every dollar spent in restaurants generating an estimated total of $2.05 in spending in the economy. This indicates that the spending multiplier for the restaurant industry is equal to A) 1.21. B) 1.70. C) 2.05. D) 4.25.