A member of Congress, who has never had an economics course, has just been placed on a Money and Banking Committee. The official needs a briefing prior to the first meeting concerning the role of the money supply in the economy.
But many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law. They offer excuses including ignorance of the law, clerical errors, and mistakes by an accountant. While lawmakers who violate the STOCK Act face a fine, the penalty is usually small — $200 is the standard amount — or waived by House or Senate ethics officials.
A key provision of the law mandates that lawmakers publicly — and quickly — disclose any stock trade made by themselves, a spouse, or a dependent child. But many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law. They offer excuses including ignorance of the law, clerical errors, and mistakes by an accountant.
Allen, a four-term Republican who represents a large southeastern region of Georgia, appears to have improperly disclosed the purchases and sales of several stocks during 2019 and 2020. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican from Pennsylvania.
Which of the following correctly describes what type of monetary policy the Fed might choose and how the policy would change the economy? The Fed could use a contractionary monetary policy to reduce aggregate demand and GDP. open market sales, increasing the reserve requirement, and increasing the discount rate.
What type of relationship exists between the growth of the money supply and changes in the inflation rate? A direct relationship.
The Federal Reserve can eliminate a recessionary gap in the short run by undertaking a policy action that increases aggregate demand. Which of the following is one monetary policy action that could eliminate the recessionary gap in the short run? A. The Fed can lower taxes.
The disadvantage of holding money balances as an asset, of course, is the interest earnings forgone. Each individual or business decides how much money to hold as an asset by looking at the opportunity cost of holding money.
Economic growth – measured as an increase of people's real income – means that the ratio between people's income and the prices of what they can buy is increasing: goods and services become more affordable, people become less poor.
Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy's ability to produce goods and services.
Which of the following combinations of fiscal and monetary policy actions would move the economy toward full employment in the short run? An increase in government spending is an expansionary fiscal policy that will increase aggregate demand and real output.
Fiscal policy means using either taxes or government spending to stabilize the economy. Expansionary fiscal policy can close recessionary gaps (using either decreased taxes or increased spending) and contractionary fiscal policy can close inflationary gaps (using either increased taxes or decreased spending).
In which of the following situations is expansionary monetary policy most effective? When the banking system lends out excess reserves, it complements Fed action that will result in successful monetary policy.
Placement is the introduction of unlawful proceeds into the financial system. Structuring, which is considered a type of placement activity, is any attempt to evade legal reporting requirements for cash/currency transactions conducted with a financial institution.
What is the reason that a real-world bank would not deposit all of its cash in the Federal Reserve Bank? Banks require excess reserves to enable lending and earn income interest. assets (Cash) = $ 100,000 and Liabilities and Net worth (stock shares) = $ 100,000.
a medium of exchange. When economists say that money serves as a medium of exchange, they mean that it is: a monetary unit for measuring and comparing the relative values of goods.
The state of the economy depicted at the right can be best described as. having a recessionary gap. A contractionary monetary policy lowers equilibrium real GDP in the short run, by increasing the interest rate. In an open economy, the net export effect.
The Fed could use a contractionary monetary policy to reduce aggregate demand and GDP. Suppose that the Fed judges inflation to be the most significant problem in the economy and that it wishes to employ all three of its policy instruments, then the Fed will engage in.
If there is an inflationary gap in the short run, the Federal Reserve can eliminate the gap in the short run by undertaking a policy action that reduces aggregate demand. But, if Federal Reserve chooses not to close the gap in the short run, the economy will eventually get back to full employment in the long run.
The transaction demand for money because you planned to buy the gift and the precautionary demand for money because you did not anticipate buying the sweater. A perpetual bond sells for $1,000 and will pay $81 a year forever. The Fed changes its policy and the interest rate changes to 9 percent.
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB) apply monetary policy by controlling interest rates: the federal funds rate, and the repo rate respectively. These two central banks apply expansionary policy by reducing the two interest rates and contractionary policy by raising the two target interest rates.
Both the direct and the indirect effects of an expansionary monetary policy are to increase aggregate demand. The indirect effect of an increase in the money supply works through. a decrease in the interest rate increasing investment and consumption. In an open economy, the net export effect.
Given members of Congress know things the average person doesn’t know, it is wise to follow how some of the richest members invest. After all, if you can’t beat them, join them!
If you don’t think there’s regular pillow talk between Nancy and Paul, I’ve got an $8 bottle of water to sell you. Oh wait a minute, that’s a bad example because bottled water is a ~$300 billion business!
Black and white insider trading is receiving a tip from someone in the know about something that will happen. You then invest according to the inside information and hope the government doesn’t catch you. See billionaire Raj Rajaratnam’s case or ex-New York Congressman Chris Collins as examples.
Now that I’ve provided you with some grey area insider information examples, how can you not believe some members of Congress know stock-moving information that you and I don’t.
When I first saw the report about the stock options Paul Pelosi had bought, I was pumped! I’ve been a long-time shareholder of Apple, Google, and Amazon. Further, I had bought more during this year’s dip as reported in, How I’d Invest $100,000 Today.
Finally, it goes without saying that insider trading is illegal. It’s not worth ruining your reputation and your life over money. If you really want to legally conduct insider trading, consider running for Congress instead.