The report requires your team to:
Analyze how U.S. monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables and to gather current and historical information on the inflation rate.
In addition, according to Mankiw (2015):
What determines the value of money? The answer to this question, like many in economics, is supply and demand. Just as the supply and demand for bananas determines the price of bananas, the supply and demand for money determines the value of money. Thus, our next step in developing the quantity theory of money is to consider the determinants of money supply and money demand. (p. 243)
Class - Let's start with the supply of money. In the U.S., what organization is responsible for monetary policy? How does that organization control the supply of money?
Reference
Mankiw, N.G. (2015). Brief principles of macroeconomics,7e (7th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.