While the Federal Reserve kept borrowing costs near zero for the decade following the Great Recession, government spending boomed and net interest costs on the national debt more than doubled. Then when COVID-19 hit, the Fed decided to finance the government’s decision to inflate the national debt by nearly 40%.

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