United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee decides to reduce the monthly pace of agency mortgage-backed securities and Treasury purchases beginning in January 2014, starting the gradual taper of its post-crisis quantitative-easing program.
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