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FIRM OBJECTIVES: The standard economic assumption underlying the analysis of firms is profit maximization. Firms are assumed to make decisions that will increase profit. Generally speaking, profit maximization is the process of obtaining the highest possible level of economic profit through the production and sales of goods and services. For a more thorough discussion of this topic, see the profit maximization entry. Real world firms might pursue other objectives including: (1) sales maximization, (2) pursuit of personal welfare, and (3) pursuit of social welfare. In some cases, these other objectives help a firm pursue profit maximization. In other cases, they prevent a firm from maximizing profit.
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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 4: Monetary Policy
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- That monetary policy is controlling the money creation activity of the fractional-reserve banking system to control deposits and the money supply.
- That expansionary monetary policy increases aggregate demand up to full employment and contractionary monetary policy decreases aggregate demand back to full employment.
- The four tools of monetary policy: open market operations, discount rate, reserve requirements, and moral suasion.
- How open market operations are used by the Fed to control the money supply.
- That the discount rate is used by the Fed to signal the intentions of the open market operations.
- That reserve requirements are the regulations the Fed uses to ensure banks keep enough reserves to back deposits.
- That moral suasion is a policy in which the Fed requests that the banking system take some sort of action.
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M2 The medium-range monetary aggregate for the U.S. economy containing the combination of M1 (currency and checkable deposits) and short-term, small denomination near monies. M2 contains financial assets that either function directly as money for the U.S. economy or can be easily and quickly converted into money. The near monies added to M1 to derive M2 include savings deposits, certificates of deposit, money market deposits, and money market mutual funds. M2 is one of three monetary aggregates tracked and reported by the Federal Reserve System. The other two are designated M1 and M3.
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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