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Planet Money

Journey To The Center Of The Fed

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.629.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We get on a boat and go to the Federal Reserve to talk about why it may be the most important institution in the world right now. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0

We are getting very close to Planet Moneys 1,000th episode.

0:05.5

It is two episodes away.

0:07.7

So to celebrate, we're gathering our favorite Planet Moneys moments from the very first

0:13.0

episode to now, almost 12 years of shows.

0:17.7

So tell us your favorite Planet Moneys moment of all time and what episode it's from.

0:22.7

You can tag us on Twitter or Instagram, we're at Planet Moneys or you can email us,

0:27.1

planetmoney at npr.org.

0:31.5

This is Planet Moneys from NPR.

0:34.1

Remember, Smith, we're on a boat.

0:38.7

You can hear the roar of the engines.

0:40.4

We're underneath the Brooklyn Bridge now.

0:42.1

We're about to cross New York Harbor to Manhattan to go to the New York Federal Reserve.

0:47.8

Is that the thing we do now?

0:48.8

We wear masks.

0:49.8

We stand six feet apart.

0:50.9

We go outside and we talk about the Fed.

0:53.3

And we did an emergency show early on in the crisis about what the Fed was doing.

0:57.3

We walked to the park and we said, wow, they've done so many amazing things.

1:01.3

It is not possible for them to do anything more.

1:04.4

How could they do anything more?

1:05.9

And then a week after that show, seven days after that show, they did so much more.

1:11.0

And a week after we've since done the Fed has done more and more and more and more money.

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