When the Federal Reserve uses open-market operations to raise the Federal funds rate several times over a year, it is pursuing:

a. A Taylor rule policy
b. An expansionary money policy
c. A prime interest rate policy
d. A restrictive money policy


d. A restrictive money policy

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