Table 8.2: Monetary Aggregates (In Billions)

question 51

Essay

Table 8.2: Monetary Aggregates (in billions)
(Source: Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
Table 8.2 above contains monetary aggregates for the United States for February and December 2015. Fill in the last three columns for each month. MMF stands for "money market funds."

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Definitions:

Mood Disorders

A category of psychiatric disorders characterized by the disturbance of a person's mood, leading to periods of depression or elevated mood.

Imagined Loss

Freudian theory that the individual unconsciously interprets all types of loss events (e.g., job loss) in terms of grief, thereby raising the risk for depression.

Magnification / Catastrophizing

The cognitive distortion that involves seeing a situation as far worse than it actually is, often leading to heightened anxiety or stress.

Hypomanic Episode

A period characterized by a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood that is distinctly different from the individual’s usual non-depressed mood and lasts at least four days.