The Federal Reserve

A. is not legally authorized to monitor or regulate complicated financial derivatives.
B. should not have promoted the use of complicated financial derivatives the way it did during the financial crisis.
C. did not pay close enough attention to derivatives in the period leading up to the financial crisis.
D. could have prevented the financial crisis through the use of complicated financial derivatives.


Answer: C

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