United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee adds purchases of 45 billion dollars of longer-term Treasury securities per month and introduces explicit unemployment and inflation thresholds to help explain how long exceptionally low interest rates may remain appropriate.
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