Suppose the nation's price level rises as a result of an increase in aggregate demand and a decrease in aggregate supply which leaves output unchanged. If the Fed is required to follow a rule that stabilizes the price level, what will the Fed do to the money supply and what impact will this have on total output in the economy?
To keep the price level stable, the Fed will need to decrease the money supply. As a result, we would expect total output in the economy to fall.
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a. limit output and raise prices. b. ignore the law of demand. c. ignore the elasticity of the demand for the product. d. both limit output and raise prices and ignore the elasticity of the demand for the product.
The Gallatin Plan (1808)
(a) was a plan by the U.S. Senate for a comprehensive system of internal land and water transport in the eastern part of the country to be built by the federal government. (b) was promoted on the basis that only the federal government could command sufficient resources to build a transportation system. (c) was partially implemented but not completed by the federal government because of concerns about the constitutionality of such federal action. (d) was characterized by all of the above.
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If a marginal cost pricing rule is imposed on the natural monopoly shown in the figure above, then it will produce
A) 2 million units. B) 3 million units. C) 4 million units. D) 5 million units.