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December 16, 2020

How the Federal Reserve just set the terms for the 2021 recovery

By Nitya Biyani and Ole Moehr

This year was perhaps the most ambitious in the history of the US Federal Reserve. To weather the financial effects of the pandemic, the Fed kept interest rates low and injected an unprecedented amount of funds into the economy. Nitya Biyani and Ole Moehr break down what this has meant for Americans—and how newly announced Fed policies for 2021 will set the stage for economic recovery.

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