What are financial intermediaries

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  1. What are the financial markets and what purposes do they serve?
  2. What are financial intermediaries? How do these intermediaries function in the economy?
  3. What is a federal government budget deficit? What is the national debt? How does a budget deficit affect the economy?
  4. Why are consumers considered to be risk-averse? What methods could be used to deal with risk?
  5. It has been said that a dollar received today is worth more than a dollar received tomorrow. What does this mean and what is the significance to the economy?
  6. What is the difference between the present value of a future sum of money and the future value of a present sum of money? What is the significance of these concepts to economics?
  7. If you deposited $1,000 in an account paying 6% interest compounded annually, how long would it take to double?

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