The Fed Accidentally Discovered Open Market Operations When

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Multiple Choice

The Fed accidentally discovered open market operations when

• A)it came to the rescue of failing banks in the early 1930s,and found that its purchases of bank loans injected reserves into the banking system.
• B)it purchased securities for income following the 1920-1921 recession.
• C)it attempted to slow inflation in 1919 by selling securities and found that its sales drained reserves from the banking system.
• D)it reinterpreted a key provision of the Federal Reserve Act.

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Definitions:

T-test

A statistical examination aimed at determining whether there's a meaningful discrepancy between the means of two groups.

Independent Means

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Normality

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Null Hypothesis

The default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or relationship between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.