In Response to Already Low Interest Rates Doing Little to Stimulate

Multiple Choice

In response to already low interest rates doing little to stimulate the economy, the U.S.Federal Reserve began buying 10-year Treasury notes and certain mortgage-backed securities to keep interest rates low.This policy is known as

A) inflation targeting.
B) contractionary monetary policy.
C) securities-bubble deflating.
D) quantitative easing.
E) discretionary monetary policy.