Original version

BBC World Service Online

The Documentary

Documentaries

Factual

Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.

The Documentary: Inside The Fed

The Documentary: Inside The Fed: Inside the Fed

Seal of the US Federal Reserve, Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

31/12/2013 GMT

Inside the Fed

Inside The Fed

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Inside The Fed, Inside the Fed

America's central bank - the US Federal Reserve - is 100 years old. Listen to its story

The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old. Simon Jack tells its surprising story.

The US Federal Reserve – America's central bank – is 100 years old. Simon Jack tells the surprising story of an institution which despite crashes and crises is a cornerstone of the global economy. With rare access to the Federal Reserve itself Simon talks to some of those who have been intimately involved with it over the decades. He discovers some unlikely tales in the Fed's struggle to maintain its independence and he finds out what things were really like there during the worst of the financial crisis in 2008.

Picture: Seal of the US Federal Reserve, Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Documentary

Inside The Fed

Inside the Fed

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service