The Federal Reserve considers any business with less than __________ employees to be "small."

The initial impact of the Fed's open market sale of government securities by the Federal Reserve is

A) an increase in the money supply by some multiple of the dollar volume of the sale. B) an increase in commercial bank deposits at the Fed. C) a fall in the money supply by some multiple of the dollar volume of the sale. D) a reduction of the commercial banking system's reserve deposits at the Fed.

Economics is the study of:

a. the allocation of scarce resources and the ways in which human decision makers utilize those resources. b. the methods that human decision makers use to transform a scarce good into a non-economic good. c. how to operate a business successfully. d. a utopian society. e. how to make money in the stock market.