Understanding the Federal Reserve Bank

00:00 - Intro

00:50 - Revisiting Chris's 2021 prediction about bonds and inflation

02:34 - What is the Federal Reserve?

04:21 - What has happened to the US economy since COVID?

06:20 - The monetary base

07:12 - Three ways the Government can throw money around

09:02 - Interest rates and inflation

10:35 - The Fed has grown massively

12:03 - How the Fed buys and sells debt

13:41 - Quantitative easing and tightening

15:05 - What value does the Fed provide to the world?

17:30 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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Chris is a novelist author of financial thrillers.

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