Happy Fed Independence Day (Update)

Planet Money

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Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The story of the day the Federal Reserve got its independence and the fight — an actual physical fight — to keep it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:04.0	Just a quick announcement for this episode starts.
0:10.0	As you may know, we just finished a three-part series finding and designing a super hero.
0:15.0	Wait, wait, wait!
0:16.0	Oh, podcast host!
0:17.0	It's Planet Money's new official superhero, Microface.
0:22.0	I am here to say that I am now on Twitter!
0:26.0	Well, that is big news.
0:28.0	You are at Microface.
0:30.0	At Microface!
0:32.0	That's one word, no hyphen.
0:35.0	It's going to take us a few months to make our comic book and report on the next phase of our superhero series.
0:40.0	But if you want updates, you've got to follow.
0:43.0	At Microface!
0:46.0	Okay, here is today's show.
0:51.0	Two years ago, we at Planet Money invented a brand new holiday.
0:55.0	Fed Independence Day.
0:58.0	We did a whole episode about its importance.
1:00.0	We asked you to celebrate this new holiday.
1:03.0	And then last year, we completely forgot about it.
1:06.0	We do apologize and thank you to those who tweeted at us.
1:10.0	However, we cannot forget this year because this very week marks the 70th anniversary,
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