Across
- 2. The central bank of the United States currency
- 11. The sales and purchase of federal government securities
- 14. The interest rate that banks charge one another to borrow money
- 15. A service offered by the Fed to record receipts and expenditures of bank clients
- 16. A nation’s main monetary authority
- 17. Supervises the operations of the Fed
- 19. Supervises the sales and purchase of government securities
- 20. The interest rate that the Fed charges when it lends money to other banks
Down
- 1. The interest rate that banks charge their best customers
- 3. A plan to increase the money supply
- 4. A term that means “relating to money”
- 5. The Fed’s actions that change the moneycsupply in order to influence the economy
- 6. Coin and paper money
- 7. A plan to reduce the money supply
- 8. The principal players in the Federal Reserve network of banks
- 9. The head of the Federal Reserve, and is the active executive officer of the Board of Governors
- 10. The fraction of a bank’s deposits that it must keep in reserve
- 12. Owns, or has a controlling interest in, more than one bank
- 13. An audit of the bank’s financial practices
- 18. A financial institution that serves savers
