1. What is the cost of money, and how is it determined? What factors affect the cost of money? 2. What is a yield curve? Why do yield curves differ? 3. Discuss the explanations for various shapes of yield curves. How can yield curves by used to forecast future interest rates? How does the Federal Reserve change the money supply in the United States? What actions would the Fed take to increase interest (decrease) rates? 5. How does general business activity affect interest rates? 6. How are the values of financial assets affected by changes in interest rates? FINANCE