Bonus Axios Deep Dive: Why the Fed matters

The Federal Reserve, over the past year, has been credited and criticized for the massive run up in asset values like housing and stocks — basically for how stocks could be going up if the economy has so many problems. Dan is joined by Courtenay Brown and Felix Salmon to discuss the Fed's mission and why it has become so central to America's economic recovery as part of a special Axios Deep Dive on America's central bank.

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