{"id":12854149,"date":"2026-01-17T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12854149"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:50:06","slug":"i-had-hoped-the-virus-would-be-contained-in-china-an-inside-look-at-the-feds-historic-fight-to-save-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/01\/17\/i-had-hoped-the-virus-would-be-contained-in-china-an-inside-look-at-the-feds-historic-fight-to-save-the-u-s-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I had hoped the virus would be contained in China&#8217;: An inside look at the Fed&#8217;s historic fight to save the U.S. economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/news\/marketwatch\/20260117140\/i-had-hoped-the-virus-would-be-contained-in-china-an-inside-look-at-the-feds-historic-fight-to-save-the-us-economy?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Ffinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I had hoped the virus would be contained in China&#8217;: An inside look at the Fed&#8217;s historic fight to save the U.S. economy<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"news-article__body__mdc\">\n<div class=\"mdc-article-body\">\n<p class=\"mdc-article-paragraph\" data-v-602de5d2=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/news\/marketwatch\/20260117140\/i-had-hoped-the-virus-would-be-contained-in-china-an-inside-look-at-the-feds-historic-fight-to-save-the-us-economy?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Ffinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-article-paragraph\" data-v-602de5d2=\"\">From Super Bowl banter to coronavirus fears, new 2020 transcripts detail the Fed&#8217;s pandemic response<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-article-paragraph\" data-v-602de5d2=\"\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-article-paragraph\" data-v-602de5d2=\"\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-article-paragraph\" data-v-602de5d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/news\/marketwatch\/20260117140\/i-had-hoped-the-virus-would-be-contained-in-china-an-inside-look-at-the-feds-historic-fight-to-save-the-us-economy?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic%2Ffinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeffry Bartash From Super Bowl banter to coronavirus fears, new 2020 transcripts detail the Fed&#8217;s pandemic response Federal Reserve Chair Jerome \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12642458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26293,21,1,12,25391],"tags":[26296,371],"class_list":{"0":"post-12854149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid","8":"category-available","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-phils-favorites","11":"category-members-corner","12":"tag-covid","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12854149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854357,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854149\/revisions\/12854357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12642458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12854149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12854149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}