“The Fed’s policies over the last decades have stoked the world of Wall Street. It has pumped trillions of dollars into the banking system and thereby inflated these markets for stocks, for bonds. And that drives income inequality.”
As the Federal Reserve signals it will raise interest rates in March, we talk to Christopher Leonard, author of the new book, about how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy.
He details the issues with quantitative easing, a radical intervention instituted by the federal government in 2010 to encourage banks and investors to lend more risky debt to combat the recession. “The Fed’s policies over the last decades have stoked the world of Wall Street,” says Leonard. “It has pumped trillions of dollars into the banking system and thereby inflated these markets for stocks, for bonds. And that drives income inequality.
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