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To be charitable, the Fed runs the money supply, but they don't control who gets the money. It's the job of Congress to regulate corporations and unions and minimum-wage and all that jazz.


When the Fed bailed out the banks with QE1,2,3 they chose a program they allocated money to the banks which let them out of their losses while individual borrowers bore the brunt of the recession.




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