Submit a 4-page paper that the following questions. Be sure to use within the paper to support your answers. Show work for all calculations.

1. Are credit cards or debit cards money? Explain your answer.

2. Assume that the bank holds no excess reserves and that the required reserve ratio equals 10% of deposits. If a customer deposits $5,000, what would be total increase in account balances all banks? Explain the process by the banking system creates money.

3. In your own words, list the Fed's main policy tools and briefly explain each one.

4. TRUE or FALSE. "When the Fed makes an open market purchase of government securities, the quantity of money will decrease by a fraction of the initial change in the monetary base." Is the previous correct or incorrect? Explain your answer.