TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Write to a number of banks in your vicinity asking for literature describing the varied services which they offer the public.

2. Outline some of the more important banking laws of your state.

3. What are the limits of the Federal Reserve district in which you live? In what city is the Reserve Bank located? Why do you suppose it is located in this city?

4. List the banks in your vicinity that are members of the Federal Reserve system.

5. Interview an official of a bank belonging to the Federal Reserve System upon the advantages of such membership.

6. Interview a friendly official of a bank which does not belong to the system. Try to ascertain the reasons why this bank does not belong to the Federal Reserve System.

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7. Nature and function of money. (Ely, Outlines of Economics, chapter xiv; Fetter, Modern Economic Problems, chapter iii.)