Open-Market Operations Describe the

question 69

Multiple Choice

Open-market operations describe the

• A) government policy, beginning in the 1950s, of reducing tariffs on foreign products.
• B) requirement that publicly owned businesses honestly report their earnings and losses.
• C) method by which the Federal Reserve buys and sells government securities to increase or decrease the supply of money in the economy.
• D) policy of deregulation pursued during the 1980s by the Reagan administration.
• E) way in which the U.S. government purchases stocks and bonds from foreign corporations.

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