GG, you asked a simple direct question...the fact that nobody offered you a direct answer must be revealling. Check out a recent paper published by the NY Fed this past may...see Seth B. Carpenter and Selva Demiralp, "Money, Reserves, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Does the Money Multiplier Exist?" Federal Reserve Bank of New York, publication 2010-41, published this past May as a staff working paper in the Finance and Economics Discussion Series. I am sure you can find it by going to the NY York Fed web site and searcing publications. This paper uses real econometrics and regression analysis to show that there is no transmission effect in monetary policy between reserves, money supply and bank lending that actually effect the price change indexes in the way accepted monetary policy predicts. If you like that paper, let me know, and I can direct you to other papers and books.