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Powell: Fed to soon begin 'challenging' Main Street lending

by AP Economics Writer
| May 31, 2020 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Friday that the Fed faces a major challenge with the launch in the coming days of a program that will lend to companies other than banks for the first time since the Great Depression.

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