In 2020, the Federal Reserve System began making large-scale purchases of municipal and corporate bonds that were having a hard time finding buyers in the secondary market. It's likely to have done this partly in order to O reduce the default rate on these bonds. O help preserve the liquidity of banks. O increase the market interest rates on these bonds. O offset the effects of its elimination of reserve requirements.
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