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64. Inflation is:

            A. An increase in purchasing power

            B. A benefit to creditors

            C. A loss of purchasing power

            D. No longer important to the Fed

65. To best co-ordinate economic growth:

            A. Monetarists emphasize money supply policy

            B. Keynesians emphasize fiscal policy

            C. both are true

            D. Both are false

66. LIBOR, sometimes appearing as Libor:

            A. is the London interbank offered rate

            B. May be replaced by SOFR by late 2021

            C. Was fraudulently manipulated by British banking personnel up to about 2012.

            D. All of the above

            E. A and B only

67. One aspect of information asymmetry

            A. Borrowers cannot compare interest rates with other borrowers of similar credit risk

            B. Households can refrain from borrowing

            C. Lending institutions are not highly regulated

            D. All of the above

68. In the U.S., the two most important cycles of bank failures occurred:

            A. 1907 -1915 and 1981-1990

            B. 1907-1915 and 1921-1933

            C. 1921-1933 and 1981-1990

            D. 1981-1990 and 2014-2017

69. The most important mechanism for preventing bank failures due to insufficient liquidity is:

            A. The discount window at the Fed

            B. Deposit insurance

            C. The dual banking system

            D. All of the above

            E. A and B only

70. Under a payoff and liquidate policy, if sufficient funds were not available after the liquidation of a failed financial institution, insured depositors would be paid:

            A. in full up to a limit of $250,000

            B. for up to half of their account balance at the time of failure

            C. up to $2,500 per depositor

            D. nothing

71. You are the president of a Savings and Loan in 1979. Your institution has a home loan portfolio of $2 billion which pays 6.5% per year. These loans are fixed-rate and have a term of 30 years. Rates paid to depositors have been about 4%, but just now interest rates offered by competing institutions and the money market offer depositors over 9.5%.

            A. Unless you can sell the entire loan portfolio and make new loans at higher rates, it is                                likely your S&L will fail

            B. Your institution has a negative interest sensitivity gap

            C. A merger with another S&L will not solve this dilemma

            D. All of the above

            E. A and B only

72. Savings banks are also commonly referred to as:

            A. Thrifts

            B. S&Ls

            C. Building societies

            D. All of the above

            E. B and C only

73. Savings institutions failed in the early 1980s, mostly because:

            A. They were heavily exposed to interest rate risk

            B. They had placed too much confidence in futures market hedging

            C. They invested too heavily in the stock market

            D. All of the above

            E. A and B only

Answer 1

Dear student, only one question is allowed at a time. I am answering the first question

64

Inflation is the increase in prices of goods and services which in turn reduces the purchasing power of money as more amount of money is required to be spent in order to get the same amount of goods and services

So, as per above discussion, Inflation is a loss of purchasing power and so option C is the correct option