An Interesting Development That Happened in Late 2008, Relating to the Fed

question 112

Multiple Choice

An interesting development that happened in late 2008, relating to the Fed and bank reserves, was that the Fed

• A) reduced the reserve ratio drastically.
• B) required banks to hold more excess reserves.
• C) started paying interest on the banks' reserves.
• D) gave back all the reserves to the banks to hold as vault cash.

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