00:01
So here we are talking about the money market, right? the money market is a relationship between, sorry, the amount of money and the interest rate, right? money supply is usually set by the central bank, right? the central bank controls the amount of money supply, and so it's usually drawn as vertical.
00:20
And money demand slopes down as a function of the interest rate, right? and it usually sloped down because of the notion of opportunity cost, right? as you, as interest rates get higher and higher and higher, it becomes more and more expensive to hold money because you'd rather earn interest.
00:39
So we start at an excess supply, right? so start excess supply.
00:49
So this means we are somewhere like right here because here the supply is greater than the demand, right? so this means that the interest rate is too high.
01:01
That means the interest rate is going to start to fall, right? it's not a shift, right? if the market is out of equilibrium, the curves don't shift to restore equilibrium, prices change to restore equilibrium, right? so the interest rate starts to fall.
01:19
We start moving down the money demand curve, right? so money demand is increasing.
01:26
And what does that mean? if people want to hold more money, it means that bond demand is falling, right? as the interest rate starts to fall, people want to hold more money and fewer bonds because bonds are simply not worth as much to hold...