The Federal Reserve Bank Does All of the Following Except

question 45

Multiple Choice

The Federal Reserve Bank does all of the following except

• A) hold elections for its board of governors every fourteen years.
• B) determine the rate of interest to be paid by U.S. banks.
• C) buy and sell government bonds.
• D) set the reserve rate that banks must hold on a deposit.
• E) engineer mergers of failing banks with healthy banks.

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