6. Describe how monetary policy can be used to control the business cycle.
By ___________ interest rates and ____________ the lending of money, a government can make it more expensive to borrow money. It can also ________ the supply of investment capital by restricting the amount of money available for loans. These both tend to _________ growth, since producers often need to borrow money to expand production. This makes it less likely that a _______ will turn into a recession. The opposite approach — __________ interest rates and freeing up investment capital — leads to an expansion of supply, _________ the economy's rate of growth, which can produce a recovery.