The effectiveness of monetary policy in increasing or decreasing the growth GDP is at the heart of the debate as to the role of the Fed in fighting off recessions or spikes in inflation as we are experiencing now. It is your job to explain what the role of the central bank can have in stabilizing the economy and whether its policies in booms and recessions are symmetrical.

Using both the A_p function as well as the IS-LM model, explain and illustrate with graphs under what conditions a central bank can do much and under what conditions a bank can do little to nothing to make spending and growth of real GDP rise or fall.

Then, use the IS-LM model to illustrate and explain the expected move by the Fed at its next meeting in December to raise short-term interest rates by 50 basis points.

Will the effect on GDP be small, large, or zero?

Given what you have written do you conclude that the Fed's policy is symmetrical, i.e., it works with the same efficiency slowing a booming economy as it does in stimulating a weak economy