| Money and Capital Markets: Financial Institutions and Instruments in a Global Marketplace, 8/e Peter Rose,
Texas A & M University
The Treasury in the Financial Markets
Chapter Objectives
You will examine the many important roles played by the government’s Treasury
Department in supporting government programs and in pursuing the
government’s goals and objectives. |
| | | You will be able to identify how the government raises new funding and how it
manages to spend the funds that it raises. |
| | | You will understand how the activities of the Treasury Department impact the
money and capital markets and the economy. |
| | | You will explore the meaning, purpose, and effect of two key government policy
tools—fiscal policy and debt management. |
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