‘I had hoped the virus would be contained in China’: An inside look at the Fed’s historic fight to save the U.S. economy
By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
From Super Bowl banter to coronavirus fears, new 2020 transcripts detail the Fed’s pandemic response
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (left) and then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, seen here in 2021, had their hands full during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior Federal Reserve officials were in a good mood in early 2020: The U.S. economy was humming, inflation was low, and the Kansas City Chiefs were preparing to play in their first Super Bowl in 49 years.


