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How Congress Should Reform the Fed

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

Update: 2025-10-30
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Dr. Alex Pollock joins the Human Action Podcast to explain his recent Congressional testimony on the Fed’s growing insolvency and mandate overreach. The Fed now admits to $243 billion in operating losses and nearly $1 trillion in mark-to-market losses, leaving it with negative capital of about $197 billion. Dr. Pollock explains how the central bank transformed itself into “the biggest 1980s-style savings and loan in history” — funding short while buying long, and bleeding cash as interest rates rose.

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How Congress Should Reform the Fed

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

Robert P. Murphy, Alex J. Pollock