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MACROECONOMICSMajor Financial Institutions
The Institutions
Banks and Credit Unions Federal Reserve Types of Business:
Sole Proprietorship, Partnerships, and Corporations
Stock Market Labor Unions
Purpose
The major financial institutions have several purposes Help manage and invest our money Help conduct our monetary policy Help create wealth and innovation in order to
grow the economy Help develop our labor policy
Money
What is money? Money refers to the medium of exchange used to
conduct economic activity No gold standard, so our money is not fixed to specific
value Money stock refers to supply of money in circulation Fiat money refers to hard money-think cash Most of the money stock is in the form of bank
deposits Beyond financial assets, such as stocks, and
property also represent wealth but must be converted or liquidated into money in order to use that wealth as a medium of exchange
Monetary Policy
BANKS THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Place to store and access money in form of deposits
More importantly, banks create wealth and enable the economy to grow
Wealth is created when banks issue loans and receive interests of those loans Businesses and individuals receive loans for a variety
of reasons but typically that loan is used to increase their wealth
The interests allow banks to earn a profit and invest more in the economy
The amount of loans banks lend is determined by two factors Reserve Requirement
regulations on the amount of reserves that banks must hold against their deposits
A percentage set by the Fed of their total deposits Judgment of Bankers
Banks manipulate the money stock through lending The more they lend, the more money is in circulation,
which causes inflation The less the lend the less money is in circulation,
which cause deflation This is largely do to the reserve requirement
Established after a banking panic in the early 1900’s it serves as the central bank of the nation It is the bank of the government Bank of banks Creates and manages our monetary policy
Enforces regulation on banking industry The Fed has to balance the value of money by
controlling long term inflation while maintaining short term goal of high employment and production output Interest Rate (discount rate)
Rate they charge banks for loans Higher the rate the less banks will borrow, reducing
the money stock; vice versa Reserve Requirement
Amount banks must hold in the Federal Reserve Bank
Higher the rate the more the have to hold, the less money stock
Open Market Operations Buy or sell government bonds Buying bonds increases supply; vice versa
Types of businesses
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
PARTNERSHIPS
Only one owner Advantage:
Pride in business All profit
Disadvantage: All financial risk Difficult to raise capital
More than one owner but traded publically
Duties and liability defined contractually
Advantage Spreads financial liability and risk
Disadvantage Conflict over decisions
• Multiple Ownership through sale of stock• Advantage
• Disperse risk and liability• Raise financial capital easily
• Disadvantage • Lose total control• More vulnerable to market conditions
Corporations
Labor Policy
LABOR UNIONS
Labor and entrepreneurship have conflicted over control historically
Labor has fought for the ability to collectively bargain for better pay, better wages, and better conditions, better benefits
Today they have a lot if political influence
Stock Market
Stocks in publicly traded companies are bought and sold at a stock market(also known as a stock exchange). NYSE - New York Stock Exchange AMEX - American Stock Exchange NASDAQ - National Association of Securities
Dealers A share a piece of ownership in a company Companies sell shares in order to quickly
and cheaply gain financial capital, for loans cost the amount of interest
Stock Prices Stock prices aren't fixed. From the second a stock is sold to the public,
its price will rise and fall based on free market forces. It is these ever-shifting market forces that make short-term movements
of the stock market so difficult to predict. And that is precisely the reason why short-term stock market investing is so risky.
Prices rise and fall primarily because of changes in supply and demand. In a free market system, the price of any commodity will rise as demand
for it increases, as long as there's a fixed amount of the commodity in circulation. The same is true for stocks. If there are a fixed number of shares in circulation, then the price of the stock will rise as more people want to buy it, and fall as more people want to sell it.
Quarterly earnings reports also play a major role in the price of stocks; shortfalls in earning can drastically drop the price of a share
The value, or price of a share, can create or destroy wealth because you buy it at one value and it becomes another value; if you sell it and it is worth more it is called a capital gain; if it is less a capital loss.