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FIDUCIARY: Relating to confidence or trust of one person in another, especially has it applies to financial matters. For example, you might give a lawyer, broker, or agent might be given fiduciary authority to access your bank account, pay your taxes, or maintain your investments. Alternatively, corporate executive might have the fiduciary authority to enter into contracts, write checks, or otherwise operate as a financial agent for the corporation.

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Lesson 19: Money Creation | Unit 5: Policy Page: 21 of 23

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Government controls money creation through two methods, one is reserve requirements.

The Federal Reserve has been given the authority over reserve requirements.

The Federal Reserve:

  • It sets the fraction of deposits a bank must keep in reserve.
  • The primary reason for this authority is to ensure the stability of banks and to facilitate check clearing.
Money supply control:
  • The Federal Reserve can ease money creation by reducing reserve requirements.
  • It can also make money creation more difficult by increasing reserve requirements.

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COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES

The official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis measuring wages earned by the household sector for supplying labor services. This is one of five official factor payments making up national income. The other four are net interest, rental income of persons, corporate profits, and proprietors' income. Compensation of employees is far and away the largest of the five factor payments, typically running about 70 percent of national income.

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