A change in the interest rate changes the demand for loanable funds.

The CPI is a useful index for all of the following reasons except

A. it is used to determine whether people's incomes are keeping up with the costs of the things they buy. B. it is used to measure changes in the cost of living. C. it used to measure the average price level of all final goods and services produced. D. it is used to compute the U.S. inflation rate.

In a matched sale-purchase transaction, the Fed

A) buys securities from a dealer and the dealer agrees to buy them back. B) sells securities to a dealer and the dealer agrees to sell them back. C) buys securities from one dealer and sells the same dollar amount of securities to another dealer. D) sells securities to one dealer and buys the same dollar amount of securities from another dealer.