What specific actions could the Federal Reserve take to decrease the money supply and therefore raise interest rates to enact Contractionary Monetary Policy?

When economy has recovered from deep recession from zero-lower-bound, there is no risk of using contractionary monetary policy.” – True or false? Explain.

describe the actions the Federal Reserve took to maintain a healthy economy during the recent economic crisis. in your opinion, were the actions necessary? were the Fed’s actions effective?

The Central banks' tools to control the money supply include the discount rate, and interest payments on reserves.  How should each instrument be changed if the Central bank wishes to decrease the money supply?

Has monetary policy exerted a stabilizing impact on the U.S. Economy during the past decade?

Faced with the possibility of recession explain how monetary policy may be used to rectify the position and how effective is such a policy likely to be.

Why does having a dual mandate complicate policy making at a central bank like the FED? Why do some people say that the FED also has a third mandate? If the FED can only directly control nominal interest rates, how does the FED influence real interest rates that determine the actual stance of monetary policy? What circumstances or issues created the need for modern monetary policy?

What do Federal Reserve economists use the Federal Reserve Board's model of the U.S. economy for? It is used only for forecasting. It is used for forecasting and policy analysis. It is used only to describe the economy. It is used only for policy analysis.

Carefully explain how the Federal Reserve (Fed) will use each of the three monetary policy tools at its disposal to decrease the money supply.

If you were to survey central bankers from around the world and ask them what they believe the primary task of monetary policy should be, what would the most popular answer likely be?