The commercial banking system has excess reserves of $1,000. Then new loans of $10,000 are subsequently made, and the system ends up just meeting its reserve requirements. The required reserve ratio must be ____%.
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Step 1: Given that new loans of $10,000 are made and the commercial banking system just meets its reserve requirements, we can use the formula for calculating new loans: New Loans = Money Multiplier * Excess Reserves. Show more…
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