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Bernie Sanders: “How do you lend out $2 trillion of Federal funds through the Fed and nobody knows anything about this?”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
How do you lend out $2 trillion of Federal funds through the Fed and nobody knows anything about this?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Senator Sanders questions the transparency of Federal Reserve lending practices.

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