Addressing inflation using Fiscal and Monetary Policy tools. Scenario - The US economy is currently experiencing high rates of inflation.  You have Fiscal and Monetary policy tools available to address this problem:   A) To attack the problem of inflation you must select one Monetary Policy tool and one Fiscal Policy tool. Write down the name of your Fiscal Policy tool and your Monetary Policy tool. Think about the options through and write down your choices. Raising taxes will allow the problem of inflation to be solved much faster. The faster the smaller the multiplier. B)Please explain why you selected the tools that you selected and why you did not select the other choices? Do this for both monetary and fiscal policy tools!   Specifically, explain what is so good about the tool you selected and what is not so good about the tools you did not select? Do this for both the Monetary Policy tool and the Fiscal Policy tool. The key here is to use some decision criteria in making your choice.   C) Thoroughly and completely explain how your solution (both the monetary and the fiscal policy tool) would work to solve the problem of inflation and indicate the impact your solution would have on at least 5 key economic variables. Be specific. Present this using the chain of events format with up or down arrows to indicate the direction of impact on each variable. I need to see the detail.

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  1. Addressing inflation using Fiscal and Monetary Policy tools.

Scenario - The US economy is currently experiencing high rates of inflation.  You have Fiscal and Monetary policy tools available to address this problem:

 

A) To attack the problem of inflation you must select one Monetary Policy tool and one Fiscal Policy tool. Write down the name of your Fiscal Policy tool and your Monetary Policy tool.

  1. Think about the options through and write down your choices.

Raising taxes will allow the problem of inflation to be solved much faster. The faster the smaller the multiplier.

B)Please explain why you selected the tools that you selected and why you did not select the other choices? Do this for both monetary and fiscal policy tools!  

  1. Specifically, explain what is so good about the tool you selected and what is not so good about the tools you did not select? Do this for both the Monetary Policy tool and the Fiscal Policy tool. The key here is to use some decision criteria in making your choice.

 

C) Thoroughly and completely explain how your solution (both the monetary and the fiscal policy tool) would work to solve the problem of inflation and indicate the impact your solution would have on at least 5 key economic variables. Be specific.

  1. Present this using the chain of events format with up or down arrows to indicate the direction of impact on each variable. I need to see the detail.

 

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