Today explained I'm Sean Ramosperm I'm standing outside the Federal Reserve

Building in Lower Manhattan it's an old stone building with steel cages around

its tall ground floor windows there's a US flag hanging above the main door

and a couple Federal Reserve Police Officer standing under it right now seven

billion dollars of Afghanistan's money is being held here it's the central

bank of Afghanistan's reserve funds and when the Taliban took over last

August the United States froze the money here in the Federal Reserve of New

York but one year later the Afghan economy is crumbling and the United

States is facing more and more calls to release this money on the show today

we're gonna hear about how dire things have become in Afghanistan and why

people think the Taliban needs to be trusted with these billions of dollars

of frozen funds today explained Ramosperm the second the United States withdrew

from Afghanistan the Taliban took over it was clear proof that the previous

government existed by the grace of the United States armed forces and the

story isn't dissimilar for the Afghan economy it was twisted to the United

States billions of the Afghan central banks reserves were stashed at the

Federal Reserve in New York and the funds remain here as the Afghan economy is

crumbling what the end of the occupation showed once and for all is that the

economy they set up for 20 years was a trap like the president couldn't pay his

own office without the United States and there were limits placed on production

on what could be produced how it could be produced where it could be produced

but the reality of that economy was that it was entirely dependent on the

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