Meanwhile, the BOJ conducted several one-year liquidity operations during April and May 2013 to cope with the volatile JGB market. While liquidity operations with maturity levels of up to one year are still available, the BOJ currently mainly provides three-month operations.
Trying to stop a plague of cobras, the British government offered a bounty for every dead snake. The plan seemed to be working at first. High numbers of dead cobras were presented to the colonial administration. Unfortunately, this did not get the plague under control.