If the Fed Wants to Permanently Lower Interest Rates,then It

question 6

Multiple Choice

If the Fed wants to permanently lower interest rates,then it should lower the rate of money growth if

• A) there is fast adjustment of expected inflation.
• B) there is slow adjustment of expected inflation.
• C) the liquidity effect is smaller than the expected inflation effect.
• D) the liquidity effect is larger than the other effects.

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