If the Fed wants to lower the nominal interest rate in the short run, the Fed ________ the growth rate of the quantity of money

A) raises
B) lowers
C) first lowers and then raises
D) does not change
E) None of the above answers is correct because the premise of the question is wrong since the Fed cannot affect the nominal interest rate, only the real interest rate.


A

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