{"id":210603,"date":"2018-09-14T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/eco-205-week-8-federal-reserve-banking-and-inflation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:52:15","slug":"eco-205-week-8-federal-reserve-banking-and-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-205-week-8-federal-reserve-banking-and-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO 205 Week 8 Federal Reserve, Banking, and Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. \ufffd Assignment: Federal Reserve, Banking, and Inflation\t\u00a0\tDue Date:\u00a0 Day 7 (Individual forum)\t\u00a0\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resources: Ch. 29 &#038; 30 of Principles of Economics, &#8220;Fed Official Expects Growth,&#8221;\ufffd and &#8220;Are Inflation Expectations Rising from the Ashes?&#8221;\ufffd\t\u00a0\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read the articles &#8220;Fed Official Expects Growth&#8221;\ufffd at http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/business\/s_385893.html,and &#8220;Are Inflation Expectations Rising from the Ashes?&#8221;\ufffd at http:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/publications\/mt\/20051101\/cover.pdf.\t\u00a0\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Create a Microsoft\u00a9 PowerPoint\u00ae presentation with 10 to 12 slides addressing the following questions:\t\u00a0\to\u00a0\u00a0 Why was the Federal Reserve created? What are its essential functions?\to\u00a0\u00a0 Who are the decision makers of the Federal Reserve? How do these people obtain these positions?\to\u00a0\u00a0 How does the Federal Reserve control the monetary system? Specifically, what tools does the Fed have to use?\to\u00a0\u00a0 How do banks increase the money supply?\to\u00a0\u00a0 How is inflation measured?\to\u00a0\u00a0 What are the causes of inflation?\to\u00a0\u00a0 Are natural disasters causes of inflation or deflation? Where might the public see the evidence?\to\u00a0\u00a0 What are the costs of inflation?\to\u00a0\u00a0 Why is inflation so widely feared?\t\u00a0\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Include detailed speaker&#8217;s notes.\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Format your Presentation using APA guidelines.\t\u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Post your presentation as a Microsoft\u00ae PowerPoint\u00ae attachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. \ufffd Assignment: Federal Reserve, Banking, and Inflation \u00a0 Due Date:\u00a0 Day 7 (Individual forum) \u00a0 \u00b7 \ufffd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resources: Ch. 29 &#038; 30 of Principles of Economics, &#8220;Fed Official Expects Growth,&#8221;\ufffd and &#8220;Are Inflation Expectations Rising from the Ashes?&#8221;\ufffd \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-205-week-8-federal-reserve-banking-and-inflation\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}