April 01, 2004

The Supply of Money

You really need to go read your textbook to get this material, but here are a few pictures that summarize the discussion.

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The topic continued on 4/6/04:

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If you want to figure out the total over all banks using fancy math, try this:

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Otherwise, you just note that the sum of all reserves must be $100 because that is how much new high-powered money was added and it all ends up as reserves in this story.

Posted by bparke at April 1, 2004 10:31 PM