Consider This Excerpt from the Textbook: "From 1929 to 1933,prior

question 151

Essay

Consider this excerpt from the textbook: "From 1929 to 1933,prior to the establishment of federal deposit insurance,over 9,000 banks failed in the United States.Because of these bank failures,people began holding their money outside the banking system.This action contributed to a significant contraction in the money supply....After peaking at $676 billion in 1931,the M2 money supply fell to just $564 billion in 1933.This drastic decline was one of the major causes of the Great Depression." Looking back on the Great Depression,what do most economists believe the Federal Reserve should have done to try to limit the negative effects of the Depression?

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