The federal reserve has three main tools that can be used for enacting monetary policy, including open market regulation and the discount rate. if using either open market regulation or the discount rate can have virtually the same effect, why is there concern over the fed buying $600 billion in treasury bonds, which is estimated to have the effect of lowering interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point?

1. which of the following best explains why president roosevelt proposed his 1937 “court-packing” plan? a. he argued that more juries were necessary to hear challenges to the new deal. b. he wanted to add to the supreme court more justices who supported the new deal. c. he argued that the supreme court lacked the authority to overturn new deal programs. 2. the federal deposit insurance corporation (fdic) was created primarily to address which problem? think of where deposits are made. a. the widespread bank failures that resulted from bank runs b. the freezing of credit that resulted from high unemployment c. the increase in personal debt that resulted from rising food prices