Assume that the following conditions exist: a. All banks are fully loaned up- there are no excess reserves, and desired excess reserves are always zero. b. The money multiplier is 77. c. The planned investment schedule is such that at a 4 percent rate of interest, Investment =$1380 billion. At 5 percent, investment is $1350 billion. d. The investment multiplier is 33. e.. The initial equilibrium level of real GDP is $1212 trillion. f. The equilibrium rate of interest is 4 percent Now the Fed engages in contractionary monetary policy. It sells $22 billion worth of bonds, which reduces the money supply, which in turn raises the market rate of interest by 1 percentage point. Calculate the decrease in money supply after FED's sale of bonds:
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