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8. The Fed conducts an open market sale of bonds, $50 million, and the reserve ratio is 20% before and after the sale a. Does

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a) money supply will decrease because there is an open market sale of bonds which will decrease liquidity in the market.

b) money supply will change by the size of the multiplier which is in this case 1 / 20% or 5. Hence money supply decreases by 50 million dollar x 5 or 250 million dollar. The answer is a decline of 250 million dollar.

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