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REAL ECONOMY: The physical side of the economy dealing with goods, services and resources. This side is concerned with using resources to produce the goods and services that make the satisfaction of wants and needs possible. This should be contrasted with the paper economy, or financial side of the economy.
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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking
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- The concept of fractional-reserve banking, which implies that deposits are used for loans and that banks must keep reserves to back deposits.
- The three types of reserves:
- Legal reserves, which are vault cash and deposits with the Federal Reserve.
- Required reserves, which are the vault cash and deposits with the Federal Reserve that regulators say a bank must keep for daily transactions.
- Excess reserves, which are any legal reserves over and above required reserves.
- That banking sort of evolved from the goldsmithing profession.
- How Fred stumbled upon the depository function of modern banks.
- How Fred discovered the lending function of modern banks.
- How Fred discovered modern fractional-reserve banking.
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RESERVE REQUIREMENTS Rules established and enforced by the Federal Reserve System governing the amount of reserves (vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits) that banks must keep to back up their deposits. Reserve requirements help to maintain a stable banking system and ensure that banks are able to conduct day-to-day check-clearing and cash-withdrawal transactions. These requirements are also one of the three monetary policy tools that the Fed can use, in principle, to control the money supply. The other two are open market operations and the discount rate.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a T-shirt commemorating the 2000 Olympics or a genuine fake plastic Tiffany lamp. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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