Project on Financial Institutions You are a well known expert on financial institutions. You are being interviewed by me, fellow classmates, friends, news, etc. It is to help them gain insights into policies and implications. You are to answer the questions based on our class discussions and your own research. There is plenty of information available on all the questions. This is not cut and paste, except potentially charts or other visuals that support your words, but you own words and interpretations of your research. Remember to use critical concepts.......unemployment, inflation, interest rates, stagflation, asset bubbles, etc. These are important to bring into your thoughts.

1. The Federal Reserves main mandates are what and how do you monitor these mandates to ensure policies are consistent with the goals. 2. The administration continued to pump money into the economy to continue economic growth. Was this a prudent policy or was it driven by politics? Did this policy create more demand when we already were seeing a shortage of goods given the supply chain issues? Should it have stopped sooner?

3.Fighting inflation can cause the economy to go into a recession. While bringing down inflation, it can cause much higher unemployment. Which is of more long term concern to the Fed 4. Interest rates had been extremely low for many years. Has that caused asset inflation, particularly for stocks and real estate? With rates increasing, do you think that will bring assets prices down and is that a goal of the raising of rates.