. . . "Pt. 7 explains the causes of the inflation of the late 1960s, its impact on the economy, and the difficulties of fighting it. Pt. 8 shows how banks operate and how the FDIC (by insuring deposits) and the Federal Reserve Bank (by acting as a lender/last resort) keep bank failures from becoming bank crises."@en . . . . . . "Inflation"@en . . "Banking system"@en . . . . . "Economics U$A. Lesson 7, Inflation Lesson 8, The Banking system"@en . . . "Economics USA"@en .