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Podcast: Grant's Current Yield Podcast
Episode: Is the Fed broke?
Description: Alex J. Pollock, distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington and former president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, calls in to discuss the state of our central bank's own finances. @RSI @FHLBC 3:07 Unrealized losses and the printing press 6:27 Treasury issuance and the Fed 9:45 Negative capital. Does it matter? 15:55 Partially paid-in capital; echoes of the banking partnerships of old Subscribe to the Grant's Current Yield Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music or listen from our website, www.grantspub.com  Â