How does the Federal Reserve influence the interest rate banks charge when lending money?

A. By shutting down banks that charge customers high interest rates
B. By increasing taxes on banks that ignore federal interest rate
guidelines
C. By establishing more federal banks to compete with private banks
D. By adjusting the interest rate banks receive on their cash reserves

Why would nations in latin america be part of a mostly arab cartel group known as opec? a) latin america refused to do business with countries that were not part of opec. eliminate b) natural resources such as oil are a major economic development for some latin american countries. c) latin america has a long history of distrust of the united states and fears a take-over of oil fields. d) latin american nations such as venezuela needed in getting natural resources to other parts of the world. 15