An article in the wall street journal noted that the fed sets "the lower bound, or a floor under short-term rates, with the interest rate it pays institutions like money-market funds on reverse repurchase agreements." source: michael s. derby and katy burne, "fed bolsters tool kit for lifting interest rates," wall street journal, december 16, 2015.
a. what is a reverse repurchase agreement?
b. why woudl the interest rate the fed pays on reverse repurchase agreements set a floor under shor-term interest rates?

Aprice ceiling is “binding” if the price ceiling is set below the equilibrium price. suppose that the equilibrium price is $5. if a price ceiling is set at $6, this will not affect the market in any way since $5 remains a legally allowable price (since $5 < $6). a price ceiling of $6 is called a “non-binding” price ceiling. on the other hand, if the price ceiling is set at $4, the price ceiling is “binding” because the natural equilibrium price is $5 but that is no longer allowed. what happens when there is a binding price ceiling? at a price below the equilibrium price, quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied. there is a shortage. normally, price increases eliminate shortages by increasing quantity supplied and decreasing quantity demanded. in this case, however, price increases are not allowed past the price ceiling. we therefore predict that the observed market price will be right at the price ceiling and there will be a permanent shortage. the observed quantity bought and sold will be dictated by the quantity supplied at the price ceiling. although consumers would like to buy more, there are no more units for sale

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

Blue spruce corp. has the following transactions during august of the current year. aug. 1 issues shares of common stock to investors in exchange for $10,170. 4 pays insurance in advance for 3 months, $1,720. 16 receives $710 from clients for services rendered. 27 pays the secretary $740 salary. indicate the basic analysis and the debit-credit analysis.