Multiple Choice
The Federal Reserve carries out monetary policy or initiates changes in the money supply by:
A) directly putting money into or taking it out of the economy.
B) ordering Congress to increase or decrease the federal budget.
C) setting the prime rate for each financial depository institution.
D) altering the amount of excess reserves in the banking and depository institutions system.
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