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Open-Ended Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchases

United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2012

Ben Shalom Bernanke13 September 2012

Washington · Economy / Federal Reserve

The Federal Open Market Committee announces purchases of 40 billion dollars of agency mortgage-backed securities per month and states that asset purchases can continue and be adjusted until the labour-market outlook improves substantially.

Names involved

Ben Shalom Bernanke

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