1. Go to the FRED economic database athttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/ and click on the "Category" tab under the search box. Go to "Money, Banking, & Finance", then "Interest Rates", and then "FRB Rates".Scroll down and look at the series "Discount Window Primary Credit Rate".

a. This is the discount rate on overnight Fed loans to banks in good condition. How did the Fed change this rate during the time period of the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic recession?

b. Why do you suppose the Fed changed the discount rate in the manner that it did?

c. What has been the pattern of the discount rate over the past year? What do you think explains this? (HINT: Think about what we have seen with other interest rates in the past year.)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/