The Federal Reserve System Was Designed to Prevent a Repeat

question 219

True/False

The Federal Reserve System was designed to prevent a repeat of the 1907 banking crisis.

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Definitions:

Marginal Benefit

The increased benefit derived from the utilization of one more unit of a good or service.

Marginal Cost

The cost added by producing one additional unit of a product, focusing on changes in overall cost with slight increases in production.

Sunk Costs

Costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered.

Marginal Analysis

The examination of the benefits and costs of an additional unit of consumption or production to make decisions on allocations of resources.