Name a reason why retail Money Market Mutual Funds are not included in M1 but demand deposits and other checkable deposits are. What specific role of...

1.Name a reason why retail Money Market Mutual Funds are not included in M1 but demand deposits and other checkable deposits are. What specific role of money does this analysis (e.g. medium of exchange, standard of value, standard of deferred payments, store of value) pertain to?

2.Passbook savings accounts and NOW accounts (part of checkable deposits) are both interest bearing bank deposits, but NOW accounts have checkable privileges and passbook savings accounts have no checkable privileges. Then why would anyone have a passbook savings deposit? Provide the economic concept behind this argument              

3.Choose an interest rate other than the 3 month Treasury Bill rate or the Federal Funds rate. Provide a definition for this interest rate. Now consider the website of the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED), given by http://research.stlouisfred.org/fred2/. Using this database, look up the series for monthly observations for this interest rate, and provide a graph of this series. Based upon the graph, provide a brief evaluation of how this variable has changed over time (3 points).