Where do you get one trillion dollars? Fed plans to print its own
The Fed announced its new plan to help stimulate the economy yesterday calling for roughly $1 trillion to be spent on the mortgage market and treasury securities. Maya MacGuineas is the Director of the New America Foundation’s Fiscal Policy Program and the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and she joins us to talk about the Fed’s new plan.
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