The Fed’s tools of monetary policy are

A. government expenditures, interest rates, and taxation.
B. open-market operations, lending to banks, reserve requirements, and paying interest on reserves.
C. the money supply, government purchases, and taxation.
D. none of these.


Answer: B

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