The twelve Federal Reserve banks are involved in monetary policy in several ways including the following except​: a. issuing currency.
b. voting on the purchase and sale of government securities that affect both interest rates and the amount of reserves in the banking system.
c. being the final authority for the discount rate.
d. deciding which banks can obtain discount loans.

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?

Qwest airlines has implemented a program to recycle all plastic drink cups used on their aircraft. their goal is to generate $7 million by the end of the recycle program's five-year life. each recycled cup can be sold for $0.005 (1/2 cent). a. how many cups must be recycled annually to meet this goal? assume uniform annual plastic cup usage and a 0% interest rate. b. repeat part (a) when the annual interest rate is 12%. c. why is the answer to part (b) less than the answer to part (a)?

Using the smith's bbq report, the cost of wine for next week will increase by 2% from the current week. if all other cost of sales stays constant, what will be the approximate total cost of sales for next week?