How can the Fed increase the money supply? How can the Fed decrease the money supply? Be specific

To increase the money supply the Fed should buy U.S. government securities on the open market, reduce the discount rate and/or reduce the required reserve ratio. Do the opposite to decrease the money supply.

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If a scale economy is the dominant technological factor defining or establishing comparative advantage, then the underlying facts explaining why a particular country dominates world markets in some product may be pure chance, or historical accident

Explain, and compare this with the answer you would give for the Heckscher-Ohlin model of comparative advantage.

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