United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee greatly expands its large-scale asset purchases, adding up to 750 billion dollars of agency mortgage-backed securities, 100 billion dollars of agency debt, and 300 billion dollars of longer-term Treasury securities.
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