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  2. Monetary base - Wikipedia

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    The monetary base is manipulated during the conduct of monetary policy by a finance ministry or the central bank. These institutions change the monetary base through open market operations: the buying and selling of government bonds. For example, if they buy government bonds from commercial banks, they pay for them by adding new amounts to the ...

  3. Money multiplier - Wikipedia

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    In monetary economics, the money multiplier is the ratio of the money supply to the monetary base (i.e. central bank money). If the money multiplier is stable, it implies that the central bank can control the money supply by determining the monetary base.

  4. McCallum rule - Wikipedia

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    then the result is McCallum's rule. A large resulting increase in M0 tends to generate or support a rapid rate of increase in broader monetary aggregates and thereby stimulate aggregate demand for goods and services. The figures used for the monetary base (M0) should be the adjusted base as calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis ...

  5. Money - Wikipedia

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    Some of the tools used to conduct contemporary monetary policy include: [55] changing the interest rate at which the central bank loans money to (or borrows money from) the commercial banks; open market operations including currency purchases or sales; forward guidance, i.e. publishing forecasts to communicate the likely future course of ...

  6. Money illusion - Wikipedia

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    Money illusion can also influence people's perceptions of outcomes. Experiments have shown that people generally perceive an approximate 2% cut in nominal income with no change in monetary value as unfair, but see a 2% rise in nominal income where there is 4% inflation as fair, despite them being almost rational equivalents.

  7. General chemistry - Wikipedia

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    General chemistry professors have been known to make tests worth a large portion of the course, and make them more challenging than the material presents itself as. Grade deflation, purposely adjusting the grades of a course to be lower, is also an issue of general chemistry courses at the undergraduate level.

  8. Velocity of money - Wikipedia

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    The velocity of money provides another perspective on money demand.Given the nominal flow of transactions using money, if the interest rate on alternative financial assets is high, people will not want to hold much money relative to the quantity of their transactions—they try to exchange it fast for goods or other financial assets, and money is said to "burn a hole in their pocket" and ...

  9. Monetary transmission mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Monetary policy affects stock prices, leading to changes in Tobin's q (the market value of firms divided by the replacement cost of capital) and investment [9] Wealth effects Monetary policy affects stock prices, which affects financial wealth and consumption (consumer spending on nondurable goods and services) [ 12 ]