The movement away from bank lending towards asset-backed securities has:
A. increased the importance of the bank-lending channel of monetary policy.
B. led the FOMC to abandon interest-rate targets.
C. decreased the importance of the bank-lending channel.
D. eliminated the bank-lending channel as a mechanism for monetary policy.
Answer: C
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