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Mostly summarized from Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, 5th Ed. PART 10 Money and Prices in the Long Run Chapter 29 of 36 The Monetary System Section 19 of 20 … As discussed in previous sections, the Fed has these three tools to control the money supply, open-market operations, reserve requirements, and the discount rate. However, the Fed's money supply control is not complete. The Fed faces two problems beyond its control. Each arises because the money supply is created by the fractional-reserve banking system. … #1 problem is the Fed does not control the amount of money households decide to keep as deposits in banks. The more money households deposit at banks · the more reserves (money held at banks to pay depositors’ demands for their money rather than loaned out) banks have · the more money the banking system can create by making loans Conversely, the less money households deposit at banks · the less reserves banks have · the less money the banking system can create ...