The initial impact of the Fed's open market sale of government securities to banks is
A) an increase in the quantity of money by some multiple of the dollar volume of the sale.
B) an increase in bank deposits at the Fed.
C) a decrease in the quantity of money by some multiple of the dollar volume of the sale.
D) a decrease of the banking system's reserve deposits at the Fed.
D
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If you want to purchase a new sailboat in two years for $9,000, how much would you presently need to have in your bank account to have $9,000 in two years? Assume your bank account pays 3 percent interest
A) $8,484 B) $8,613 C) $8,738 D) $8,822
In the above table, the firm
A) must be in a perfectly competitive market because its marginal revenue is constant. B) must be in a perfectly competitive market because its marginal cost curve eventually rises. C) cannot be in a perfectly competitive market because its short-run economic profits are greater than zero. D) cannot be in a perfectly competitive market because its long-run economic profits are greater than zero.