The Argument Advanced by Milton Friedman for Adopting a Monetary

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Multiple Choice

The argument advanced by Milton Friedman for adopting a monetary growth rule is that

• A)active monetary policy potentially destabilizes the economy.
• B)the Fed can control the money supply,but not the level of interest rates.
• C)a constant rate of growth in the money supply would eliminate the booms and recessions that make up the business cycle.
• D)the growth rate of M1 has been unstable.

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Definitions:

Variance

The measure of how far each number in the dataset is from the mean and from each other, indicating the spread of the distribution.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; a high standard deviation indicates that the values are spread out over a wider range.

Coefficient Of Variation

The coefficient of variation is a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, expressed as a percentage of the mean.

Empirical Rule

A statistical principle that indicates almost all values in a normal distribution lie within three standard deviations from the average.