Around the country and across the world, the threat of a recession is looming and economic uncertainty is rising as markets, businesses and individuals adjust to a new reality: the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and pulling back on its epic monetary experiment that started with the Great Financial Crisis. From the award-winning team behind The Facebook Dilemma and Amazon Empire, the two-hour documentary Age of Easy Money investigates how the Fed's experiment has changed the American economy and what it means that the era may be over.
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With the Fed raising interest rates, there is economic uncertainty among businesses and individuals. This documentary investigates how the Fed's loose monetary policy changed the U.S. economy and what could happen in the future.