Why the Federal Reserve Controls So Much of the Economy | WSJ

The Federal Reserve is central to the U.S. economy today, and it’s controlled by just 12 people. Its monetary policies can lower inflation or even spark a recession. The central bank says it’s dedicated to achieving its goals set by Congress to maximize employment and maintain price stability, but some of its decisions like raising interest rates are not always popular with Americans.
WSJ explains how the Fed became the power it is today and why it plays such a major role in the country.
0:00 Economic policies
1:02 The Fed’s creation
2:59 The FOMC’s creation
4:11 Great Inflation
6:18 Great Recession
8:07 Covid-19
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People believe their currency has the worth it does because they have no other option. Even in a hyperinflationary environment, individuals must continue to use their hyperinflationary currency since they likely have minimal access to other currencies or gold/silver coins.

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[@madesquire2796]

HE DID NOT SAY "MONEY PRINTER GO BRRR" 💀😂

[@jessek.5899]

😂

[@jesustsa1]

He didn’t! That was actual audio of a money printer 😅

[@LuisLascanoValarezo]

Printing money for artificial inflation is basically taxing people that have cash savings

[@badluck5647]

It has also been a great business opportunity for businesses to earn more profit. They justify price increases by pointing to inflation while the wage increase becomes inelastic by comparison.

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@@badluck5647rich people getting rich broke people getting dug deeper

[@DippedInInk]

Is it?

[@programking655]

Except that nominal interest rates adjust upwards, so no, it’s not taxing anything

[@babybison2881]

​@@programking655 no, he's right. It's free money for the Fed. It's not backed by anything. They artificially inflate or deflate interest rates. All in the name of making money off the average American. It's a tax no matter how you look at it.

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[@lakeguy65616]

The Fed's response to a crisis is often the catalyst for a future crisis that requires Fed intervention. The process repeats ad infinitum.

[@greg4367]

Ad infinitum, ad nauseam, never EVER learning from their mistakes.

[@kaig9707]

Ad infinitum… until the currency collapses.

[@Acteaon]

And yet we don’t reconsider something else

[@teEnTYoNG]

​@@Acteaonlaissez-faire free banking

[@_ata_3]

Sure lakeguy65616

[@luisespinoza2929]

The moment she broke script just to make the brrr sound killed me 😂

[@sureshnishtala2887]

Very well Explained about the origins of The Federal Reserve. It started with a crises and learning at each and every crises.

[@shellylofgren]

The market and the Fed consistently underestimate the sticky nature of inflation. The markets are still unsure if the Federal Reserve will continue to its plan to raise interest rates until inflation is under control, despite the fact that bond yields are rising while stock prices are falling. What is the greatest strategy to take advantage of the current bear market while I'm still deciding whether to sell my $401k worth of stocks?

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@@theresahv How are we going to achieve all that given that the market has being a mess most of the year seems farfetched. I keep hearing that the market is pricing in a 60% probability of a 75 hike. But isn’t it also pricing in a dovish fed that’s going to pívot relatively quickly?

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Informative and stylish presentation. Keep it up WSJ.

[@Brandon-xp1ob]

It's not informative, it's propaganda

[@Nolsie]

End the Fed.

[@omercakmak3099]

what is the model of the car in 6:22 ?

[@mariavictoriacaringal6795]

How can I exchange my Federal Reserve Notes 1934-A 1000$ ? Where do I go to have it exhanged for the current rate? Thank you.

[@weirdshibainu]

"The Fed is just this poorly understood and really important institution in our country"....and the Fed likes it like that.

[@marisahokefazi2949]

In the 1980s and 1990s one could subscribe to newsletters from each fed bank and would be sent these wonderful informative financially Educated news letters. Then for some reason they decided to stop. That was a terrible idea because it really hurt financial literacy. The fetch of start making those news letters available again.

[@riddell26]

You literaly paid for propaganda, and got upset that they stopped sending propaganda

[@benjaminlehman3221]

Part of economics is that there are recessions and troughs. If the fed never lets things fail and prices go down then inflation will continue.

[@eco-nutjob]

No, that is part of the broken system of capitalism. The Fed is just a puppet attempting to 'control' inflation and interest rates, while realistically, these things are not controllable.

[@I-Know-Best]

What are you talking about? "If the fed never lets things fail and prices go down then inflation will continue" ??? Thats called DEFLATION

[@josephlynch7655]

Deflation is bad actually

[@tomlxyz]

Recessions aren't necessary, they're just the product of the current system

[@weird-guy]

You want deflation? Every country has a target of 2% inflation , now that inflation is coming down most prices will not come down, governments were to slow imo to increase interest and stop “the bleeding”. My country right now has inflation of 3,4%, the only prices that come down was petrol/diesel, essential products because the government changed vat from 6% to 0%,electricity I think is predicted to come down but nothing more, mortages on loans of 150K€ increased 200€,we have a housing crisis because we need immigration but there not enough houses do to the previous financial crisis, my government right now has more money than ever before but the tax burden is the highest it ever been, but people are worst off

[@chrish3305]

Great overview, thanks

[@Howaboutyoublow]

“Business and politicians got together and decided that relying on wealthy people to do the right thing was not the best option… so we created the fed” translates to “Bankers realized it was too expensive to pay for their mistakes, so they came up with a way to steal your money indirectly instead”

[@19MAD95]

The perfect comment

[@bolasblancas420]

Laisser-faire no more.

[@rhymerez]

got together should be replaced with took a train in secret to jekyll island to craft it, then passed the legislation also in secret when most people were enjoying christmas and new years.

[@libyann9385]

Yes

[@DippedInInk]

U actually believe that?

[@teashea1]

very well done. effective to minimize the number of experts instead of having many. excellent.

[@davisoaresalves5179]

The most powerful institution in the world.

[@_ata_3]

How are politics and economic policies different?

[@eddieloujones2673]

Printing money is like reverse Robin Hood. Steal from the poor to give to the rich.

[@alberthoffman5297]

I think this comment section needs to attend a mandatory economics class

[@JamesFarming]

Why did the WSJ stop making videos?

[@Danny-fs1hk]

This was an excellent segment. They explained the Fed in simple terms.

[@andis9076]

Not just US, it's the WHOLE WORLD !

[@victorco.6308]

responsible and necessary decisions are not always popular

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how can i work there

[@LhotseMS]

I love how they just glance over “but bank don’t keep that much money” - maybe the fractional reserve system is the issue?

[@boitumelosekgothe]

@Wendoverproductions I think you can do a better job producing a video on this topic of central banks.

[@mckcpaul1]

This video shows you that the FED after 113 years from its inception still has barely a clue of what it is actually doing, still throwing things and solutions against the wall to see if they stick, how much longer are people going to put up with dangerous cartel!

[@Brandon-xp1ob]

On point. Only buerocrats can do a job so terribly for decades and still exist. I hear the central banks in Argentina and Lebanon are doing well though😂🤦

[@f.anvary7783]

I can explain it in 9 seconds! Bunch of criminals who never get caught!!

[@microsoftpain]

END THE FED!

[@markhirstwood4190]

Timiraos says 'imporduhn' (important).

[@cbbcbb6803]

It seems to me that the Federal Reserve actually makes (prints) money. Regular people get money by, hopefully, "earning" it. Keep in mind that economy and the financial are not the same thing as the people. The economy can be great and, at the same time, people may not be doing well at all.

[@NicholasBall130]

The system is failing as a result of both government and federal policy. In the next days, the banking crisis would have to be epic and gigantic for the FED to decide not to raise interest rates. This won't happen; an increase and a crash are coming. There will be more negative portfolios this 2nd half of 2024 with markets tumbling, soaring inflation, and banks going out of business. My concern is how can the rapid interest-rate hike be of favor to a value investor, or is it better avoiding stocks for a while?

[@EleanorBaker474]

Just ''buy the dip'' man. In the long term it will payoff. High interest rates usually mean lower stock prices, however investors should be cautious of the bull run, its best you connect with a well-qualified adviser to meet your growth goals and avoid blunder

[@StacieBMui]

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[@StocksWolf752]

My portfolio has been in the gutter for the entire year, so I started researching new ways to profit in the market, but everything I tried just seemed to miss the mark. Please let us know the name of your financial advisor.

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[@pwp8737]

Hmm...so oligarchs decided to socialize the risks of banking and privatize the profits. Aint capitalism grand?

[@micheal_mills]

The only American who won't acknowledge this Administration's failed economic policies is Joe Biden. "Shrink-flation' is the least of our worries compared to rising rents and stagnant wages, but it is an undeniable indicator of how bad our inflation has gotten. I have $100k that i like to invest in a non-retirement account, any advice on that?

[@donna_martins]

I would avoid index funds, mutual funds, and specific stocks for the time being. Right now, the best option is a fixed income of five percent. Put money aside for the times when the market really starts to bounce back.

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[@vinesthemonkey]

the issue at the start was FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING

[@rustyschackleford5800]

The FED doesn't control all interest rates. They can affect short term rates and manipulate the bond market, but they don't simply "raise rates." The capital markets are bigger than the FED.

[@cbatchler]

I get what you are saying but 90% of HELOC, commercial lines, and loans are tied to the prime rate which is fed funds +3, so when the fed changes that rate all those loans follow. That's a huge influence and everything else would be priced and correlated to that. Good old supply and demand.

[@Adam_The_Archivist]

@@cbatchlerno actually most mortgages, corporate debt and to a lesser extent home mortgages are tied to the 10 yr Treasury rate. You are correct on the +3%. If you look at the current 10 year and add 3% you are at the national average of roughly 7% give or take..

[@cbatchler]

@@Adam_The_Archivist Not really, what you are saying is the correlation or spread of two different loan products. If that were true then why do I have a 3.25% mortgage in Oct of 2016 when the 10-year was at 1.7%? That would suggest my mortgage should be 4.7% and not 3.25%, Right? Think of it this way, on a highway the speed limit is 55 MPH but most cars are going 60, some going 65-70 and some 75 MPH. Those cars are willing to take the risk of going faster just as investors are willing to pay different rates for different products and as speed limits change so does their speed. So the loans aren't tied to the 10-year Treasury, that is just a frame of reference to compare other loan rates too. I have a commercial line of credit with Key Bank and it says the rate is 6 points plus the prime rate, it doesn't say anything about the 10-year US Treasury in its pricing model, nor have I ever seen a loan price itself to the 10 year. Hence the Fed sets the line and every one prices and moves around that line and then supply and demand sets in just like a speed limit.

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

Historically that's true. But at this point their balance sheet is so huge that they pretty much do control the bond market. If they unloaded all their mortgage backed securities at once then long term rates would spike. Or they could drop rates to 2% by printing money and buying mortgage backed securities like they did in 2020. They don't operate according to the economics textbooks anymore. Things changed in 2008.

[@tomlxyz]

They can affect much more if they wanted

[@loukramer152]

The fed may have taken the punch bowl away, but the WSJ reporting drank the Koolaid anyway!

[@claudiobv01]

Why the fed controls so much the economy?? 😂😂 that’s a good one!

[@prairiepatriot2162]

At some point, you have to take the training wheels off and let bad economic (fiscal) policy run its course; if people had to suffer the consequences of bad election decisions, they might vote smarter. Eventually if you keep inflating a balloon (money supply) it will pop. Deficits and debt cannot be increased indefinitely without consequence. Which is more painful, recessions or a currency collapse; anyone who's lived under socialism can tell you that it is the latter.

[@microsoftpain]

finally, someone with a brain. 💀

[@Pyrrhic.]

Fun fact, when surplus trading nations like China, Saudi Arabia, and Japan invest their USD reserves in treasuries instead of converting it to their own currency, that pushes down long term or shorter interest rates, depending what maturity they buy. Feds can’t control that.

[@tomlxyz]

Yes, that's mainly what keeps the US afloat. Import wares, export investments and USD debt

[@Pyrrhic.]

@@tomlxyz it’s also to keep their own currency devalued, making their exports more attractive. Also US financial markets is arguable the best in the world to invest their profits.

[@damnguen1726]

@@Pyrrhic.maybe their currencies are so devaluated that even they dont want to hold them :v

[@pinkietoes]

Your claim makes no sense since Tbills are short-term government debt instruments without any interest rate, but instead purchased at a discount.

[@riddell26]

The Feds dont even control the Federal Reserve

[@masterstacks2030]

END THE FED

[@Based_Sir887]

End the fed.

[@DevonLadd]

Very nice

[@usasylee3919]

Bernanke planted a time bomb. You can't stop it :(

[@Pyrrhic.]

It started with Greenspan to be honest

[@raybod1775]

Nobody created as much money as the current Fed.

[@ClassicNed]

But here’s the problem! The central bank’s in Europe, have played a dominant role on members who chair the Federal Reserve.

[@michaelyoon9355]

Printing money recklessly without having an answer for declining real income growth for the vast majority of people is irresponsible.

[@sunalwaysshinesonTVs]

Wait? What's there to explain? Regan told me running the American economy is like running a household budget -easy peesy.

[@jwong478.]

That fiat money system😅

[@zacharyparis]

It’s built to fail. A debt based system is not sustainable.

[@infocrypt]

Cancel federal reserve. The only way to stop money printing.

[@jakemcgrath9708]

“Tell him that we’re gonna lock him up in the federal reserve!”

[@TonyFarley-gi2cv]

So federal I see out there there's some young children that have graduated high school and college but as a young child they're still not allowed to work and most of these colleges well I'm not sure most of them but some of them are book type now as a young child work experience comes in mind so do you think it'd be a cool idea to send some of them to like MIT or some of these engineer bill structures and because they're younger and child means our stuff can't be gone through you can theoretical stuff and put it in with some of them to learn into that or seeing what they bring to the table by other ones that want to participate with them as a kid

[@BUBBLETEABOY]

Money Machine goes brrrr

[@fieldboy7507]

THE CRAZZY PART IS THAT WE ARE LIVING IN THE HYPER INFLATION N ITS ONLY GONNA GET MORE WORSE FROM NOW ON

[@masterstacks2030]

The 70s inflation was from the depeg from gold

[@Hokua888]

Yea.

[@chaiszcash4206]

This video was BOMB 💣 boom lol

[@abgzulkifli]

You didn't say who help Federal Reserve dns

[@lakeguy65616]

The problem is since 1977, the Fed is tasked with a dual mandate; full employment & price stability. Full employment creates inflation and low inflation requires some level of unemployment. Return the Fed to a single task of price stability. I'd go one step further, Iimit the Fed's ability to grow the money supply to growth in GDP. The Fed's policies created today's inflation.

[@greg4367]

That isn't the problem, it's the cover story.

[@gund89123]

US has not seen high inflation in decades. Inflation we see today is most because of COVID disruptions, federal government spending on PPP loans & writing checks to people during COVID, & supply chain disruptions.

[@lakeguy65616]

@@gund89123 Inflation is a monetary phenomenon where too much money is chasing too few goods and services. And its almost always a consequence of government action.

[@teEnTYoNG]

Even better would be to get the government out of the system. Under free banking in the us we had near zero inflation and laissez-faire banking is much more stable. Central planning is terrible as the fed has shown.

[@lakeguy65616]

@@teEnTYoNG either you didn't watch or didn't understand the video

[@nonyabuiz2023]

Why is Interest paid on fiat currency?

[@1ovejuju]

Someone about to make that "Money go brrr" into a tiktok sound

[@AK36677]

END THE FED!!!!

[@ranickhaan]

This only confirms government is never the answer.

[@hans6304]

Very rich institution.

[@Lazaven]

So we’re not gonna talk about Jeckle island?

[@ryan_dasan]

Hey there! I've been pondering about something, and I was hoping you could help me out. So, as you know, we have a mixed system government with a federal reserve. But here's what's been on my mind - doesn't that make us partially communist? I've asked some people about this, and they've mentioned something about the central bank being Marxist. I'm not entirely sure what that means. Can you shed some light on this for me?

[@vinsage8979]

the fed reserve has no reserves

[@davidwalsh9807]

FEDNOW ramping up

[@michaelglendinning1738]

Money that is real can be not real, and money that is not real can be real. That pisses me off!!!!!!!

[@aroundandround]

The job of FOMC is fun; no one has any real idea what the economy will do in response to their actions but they keep winging it.

[@AnthonyJohnson-gr3xj]

Shout out STL

[@nathanaeltekalign2508]

The Federal Reserve confuses monetary inflation with non-monetary inflation. Monetary inflation is caused by an increase in the money supply. The inflation of the 1970s was monetary inflation because the Nixon Shock happened during 1971. The inflation that happened during 2022. Non-monetary inflation was caused by supply chain issues that would have gone away even if interest rates were never raised in the first place. Therefore, interest rate increases were inappropriate during 2022, even if they appropriate during 1978. Also, the Federal Reserve should focus on the rate that the money supply increase rather than the inflation rate.

[@oas8766]

"prrr in 2020" lol they print 10 billion a month!!!! in 2020 they printed 5 TRILLION in a few months!!!

[@sunalwaysshinesonTVs]

The Fed: socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.

[@hamzamahmood9565]

So Republicans?

[@remsee1608]

Its a way for them to steal your money

[@clandestine2162]

Fed reserve controls dollars,.thats why other currencies connot take on dollar,and it is widely use.even countries with huge economy struggles to create a new banking system that wil surpass the old payment system

[@THYCR3AT0R]

So in gen-z terms the USD is the exact same as crypto and the bubble is being torn apart be cause of greedy rug pullers, got it.

[@69pepe420]

BITCOIN

[@lilsabin]

Loool , funny part s that more than half of the people who ll watch this will still NOT UNDERSTAND

[@harrysumardi7536]

Printing money is the Fed Ninja way on every crisis

[@caesarhuang7662]

Aka the largest bank cartel

[@cfllfc9278]

Speaking of the feds.... How did we go from throwing tea in the harbor to armed IRS agents ?

[@kqiesaw.9385]

BACK THE BLUE. Let the IRS do their jobs. I have nothing to hide. Nothing to fear. Are you guilty?

[@KingPhoey]

Taxation without representation is different than taxation with representation.

[@greg4367]

@@KingPhoey I, for one, do not feel particulary represented by any part of out government. Do you?

[@cookiesmack6442]

@@greg4367yes because you can vote

[@gund89123]

Who’s going to pay for military? Who’s going to invest in infrastructure? Who’s going to bail out states with low revenue? Most states would file for bankruptcy if they don’t receive federal funds.

[@javonicasapp1203]

Brrrrrr!😂😂😂

[@ashfaqueali555]

The Party has Just warming up

[@raybod1775]

The Constitution says only Congress can coin money. The Federal Reserve should have been created under the Department of Treasury.

[@fanniinnanetguy653]

It's actually the department of treasury that coins the money

[@riddell26]

​@@fanniinnanetguy653The Treasurey has nothing more to do with it outside of filling out loan requests to the Federal Reserve which is a private bank that operates outside of rhe government for profit. That profit is the interest on every single dollar that has every entered circulation physicaly or within digital accounts.

[@harshdeepsandhu6958]

Not a good video, doesn't really answer exactly how the federal manages the money supply. Needed more details

[@vaughnbay]

There are massive winners and massive losers for every FED action. Interesting how the FED never talks about the losers. What a biased video.

[@DippedInInk]

Reading the comments wondering how y'all get your information cuz its a lot that u don't know and will never know.

[@yomajo]

Jakkyl island or a lie. And i hear nothing about the island...

[@alaaa1794]

This helps the global economy

[@PatNeedhamUSA]

END THE FED /s

[@infini.tesimo]

I love how you conveniently did NOT talk about the most important year where so many things happened that changed how things are done forever in 1933. A big one is HJR-192 and how that is still in effect. You guys have an agenda by not saying that out loud because when figure out that there is no money out here and they are the original creditors, the whole fragile system as is falls apart.