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Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion

Category: Business
Duration: 00:09:27
Publish Date: 2025-07-31 07:00:59
Description: The Fed is on the hook for an estimated one-and-a-half trillion dollars. Despite the recent headlines, that's not because of building renovations. It's a much larger cost blowout caused by big actions taken during the pandemic to help the economy: quantitative easing.

Today on the show, we talk to both a critic of these actions and someone who helped put those those actions in play.

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