Cato Podcast
Cato Podcast
Cato Institute
Reforming the Federal Reserve, Brick by Brick
27 minutes Posted Feb 3, 2026 at 11:45 am.
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For more than a century, the Federal Reserve has accumulated responsibilities far beyond monetary policy, from bank regulation to payments and emergency lending. The Cato Institute's Nick Anthony, Norbert Michel, and Jai Kedia break down what the Fed actually controls, what it does not, and why inflation, debt, and financial instability cannot be fixed by interest-rate tweaks alone.

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