Fed considered many ways to boost economy, minutes show

The U.S. Federal Reserve considered a range of actions to help a struggling economy at its August meeting, including the unprecedented step of tying the interest rate policy outlook to a specific unemployment level. Before settling on a promise to keep rates near zero until 2013, a decision that ...

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