Should we call Ghostbusters or 911 (the emergency number), if the flow of money becomes sluggish within our macroeconomy? In this activity, you will explore the concepts of monetary policy, monetary policy tools, and expansionary and contractionary monetary policy.

Locate a recent article (published within the last year) that discusses the objectives of the Federal Reserve Banking System, monetary policy tools and how they work, and whether the Federal Reserve Banking System is using expansionary or contractionary monetary policy.

You can use the Hunt Library, newspapers, new stations, or other credible sources to locate an article. Analyze the article and then provide the following in your discussion.

• Define the term monetary policy tools.
• Explain how each monetary policy tool is used.
• Provide an example of a real-life application in which the Federal Reserve Banking System would use contractionary monetary policy over expansionary monetary policy.
• Discuss which monetary policy is used most often and why.