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An Overview of Money
Money is anything that is generally accepted as a medium of exchange.
Money is not income, and money is not wealth. Money is:
a means of payment,
a store of value, and a unit of account.
What is Money?
Barter is the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services.
A barter system requires a double coincidence of wants for trade to take place. Money eliminates this problem. As a medium of exchange, or means of payment, money is generally accepted by buyers and sellers as payment for goods and services.
What is Money?
As a store of value, money serves as an asset that can be used to transport purchasing power from one time period to another. As a unit of account, money is a standard that provides a consistent way of quoting prices. Money is easily portable, and easily exchanged for goods at all times. The liquidity property of money makes money a good medium of exchange as well as a store of value.
Commodity monies are items used as money that also have intrinsic value in some other use. Gold is one form of commodity money. Fiat, or token, money is money that is intrinsically worthless.
Legal tender is money that a government has required to be accepted in settlement of debts. Currency debasement is the decrease in the value of money that occurs when its supply is increased rapidly.
M2, or broad money, includes near monies, or close substitutes for transactions money. M2=M1 + savings accounts + money market accounts + other near monies The main advantage of looking at M2 instead of M1 is that M2 is sometimes more stable.
Financial intermediaries are banks and other financial institutions that act as a link between those who have money to lend and those who want to borrow money.
Panel 1
ASSETS Reserves 0 LIABILITIE S 0 Deposits
Panel 2
ASSETS LIABILITIE S
Panel 3
ASSETS LIABILITIE S
Panel 1
ASSETS Reserves 0 LIABILITIE S 0 Deposits
Panel 2
ASSETS LIABILITIE S
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ASSETS LIABILITIE S
Panel 2
ASSETS
Reserves 100 Loans 80
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ASSETS
Reserves 20 Loans 80
LIABILITIE S
100 Deposits
LIABILITIE S
180 Deposits
LIABILITI ES
100 Deposits
Reserves 80
80 Deposits
Reserves 80 Loans 64
Reserves 64
144 Deposits
Reserves 16 Loans 64
80 Deposits
Reserves 64
64 Deposits
115.20 Deposits
Federal Reserve
Assets Government $200 securities Liabilities $100 Reserves $100 Currency Reserves Loans (+ $300)
Commercial Banks
Assets $100 $700 Liabilities $800 Deposits (+ $300)
The discount rate is the interest rate that banks pay to the RBI to borrow from it. Bank borrowing from the RBI leads to an increase in the money supply. The higher the discount rate, the higher the cost of borrowing, and the less borrowing banks will want to do.
Securities
$160
$80 Reserves
$80 Currency
Reserves
Loans
$80
$320
$400 Deposits
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Federal Reserve Assets Liabilities Securities $95 $15 Reserves (- $5) (- $5) $80 Currency Commercial Banks Assets Liabilities Reserves $15 $95 Deposits (- $5) (- $5) Loans $80 Jane Q. Public Assets Liabilities Deposits $0 $0 Debts (- $5) Securities $5 $5 Net (+ $5) Worth
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Commercial Banks Assets Liabilities Reserves $15 $75 Deposits (- $5) (- $25) Loans $60 (- $20) Note: Money supply (M1) = Currency + Deposits = $155. Federal Reserve Assets Liabilities Securities $95 $15 Reserves (- $5) (- $5) $80 Currency Jane Q. Public Assets Liabilities Deposits $0 $0 Debts (- $5) Securities $5 $5 Net (+ $5) Worth
An open market purchase of securities by the RBI results in an increase in reserves and an increase in the supply of money by an amount equal to the money multiplier times the change in reserves.
financial intermediaries
legal tender lender of last resort liquidity property of money
run on a bank
store of value unit of account