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Federal Reserve monetary policy in the time of COVID-19

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IN the past 12 years, the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) has faced two major financial crises. One started within financial markets (the housing finance collapse of 2007–2009) and one involved an outside shock (the COVID-19 pandemic). The Fed responded in each case with an alphabet soup of new programs, and despite the differences between the two crises, these […]