In the years following the Great Recession, the Federal Reserves, under Ben Bernanke, has controversially taken the lead in artificially spurring on the economy through its use of “quantitative easing,” or the buying of Treasury and mortgage bonds in order to shrink the supply and raise demand. With the Fed now holding more than $4 trillion in
Questions Of Central Bank Secrecy Loom Amid Yellen’s Confirmation
Traditionally, the Federal Reserve’s inner-workings were not known to the public.