The Indicator from Planet Money
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Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion
9 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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The Fed is on the hook for an estimated one-and-a-half trillion dollars. Despite the recent headlines, that's not because of building renovations. It's a much larger cost blowout caused by big actions taken during the pandemic to help the economy: quantitative easing.

Today on the show, we talk to both a critic of these actions and someone who helped put those those actions in play.

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