United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee decides to reinvest principal payments from agency debt and mortgage-backed securities into longer-term Treasury securities, preventing the Federal Reserve's securities holdings from shrinking as recovery slows.
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