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?

11. what characteristic was shared by all the important scientists of the scientific revolution? the importance of challenging authority at all times in the pursuit of truth. truth is only achievable through a process of inquiry and observation. the belief that traditional methods of inquiry and discovery were correct, but needed greater accuracy. the belief that the ancient philosophers were correct in their original observations of the laws of nature.