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An Increase in the Money Supply Can Cause an Initial

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An increase in the money supply can cause an initial reduction in interest
Rates followed by higher rates in the long run because, beginning at long-run equilibrium at potential GDP,


A) the investment stimulus of lower interest rates causes inflation, higher demand for money, and thus higher interest rates.
B) the stimulus of lower rates is canceled by a counterbalancing increase in federal taxes required to finance the monetary policy.
C) the investment stimulus crowds demand for money out of the money market and thereby produces a larger increase in interest rates.
D) the stimulus drives prices up to augment nominal rates that were unaffected by the monetary policy.
E) all of the above.

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