United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee announces plans to purchase 600 billion dollars of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a program widely known as the second round of quantitative easing.
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