... people at the top then those benefits should trickle down to the lower classes, and stimulate economic growth throughout the economy. Throughout this period monetary policy, implemented by the independent Federal Reserve Board, commonly known as the Fed, was used to try to fine tune the short term economic situation by manipulating the interest rate, and the money supply, through it's control ... over the banking system. With the Keynesian system, the Fed would want to increase the money supply by lowering interest rates and reserve requirements to increase the buying power of the peopl...

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... World, the artificial increase in the price of oil drove them into bankruptcy. These countries were no longer able to service their debts to the developed world. Furthermore, the US Federal Reserve drove interest rates up during this time, in order to lure the petrodollars back into American banks. The higher interest rates caused a collapse of the physical economy, which could no ... ...

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