Suppose you are a personal friend of the current chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Jerome Powell, 2019). He comes over to your house for lunch and notices your couch. He is so struck by the beauty of your couch that he simply must have it for his office. He buys it from you for $1,000 and, since it is for his office, he pays you with a check drawn on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 1. Are there more dollars in the economy than before? Why?
2. Why do you suppose that the Federal Reserve doesn't buy and sell couches, real estate, and so on, instead of government bonds when they intend to change the money supply?

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The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out

Newton industries is considering a project and has developed the following estimates: unit sales = 4,800, price per unit = $67, variable cost per unit = $42, annual fixed costs = $11,900. the depreciation is $14,700 a year and the tax rate is 34 percent. what effect would an increase of $1 in the selling price have on the operating cash flow?