If a bank has $1 million in demand deposits, $400,000 in reserves, and faces a 30 percent reserve requirement, the amount of money that a bank could initially create by loaning out their excess reserves is:

a. $600,000.
b. $400,000.
c. $300,000.
d. $100,000.

d

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If a regulatory commission imposes upon a nondiscriminating natural monopoly a price that is equal to marginal cost and below average total cost at the resulting output, then:

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