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Hello and welcome to Planet Money, I'm Robert Smith.

I'm Jacob Goldstein.

Robert, I should say it's 12.50 pm Eastern time on Monday.

We are in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, about midway between our apartments where we're both

working today.

We are six feet apart and we are today recording an emergency episode of Planet Money and

there may be a lot of these in the future.

An emergency episode because over the last few days the Federal Reserve of the United

States of America has done some extraordinary things, extraordinary important things that

we really need to break down and talk about.

So today on the show we're going to say what those things are, talk about why the Fed

did them, what it could mean for the economy, and if there's anything else left for the

Fed to do.

Is the whole park, are we in the one part of the park that's the most under the plains?

It's funny, I never noticed how many plains it over.

I've noticed it's every three minutes.

If you lay on the grass sometimes I'll lay on the grass and you just watch them go.

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I just have to take a moment to say how strange this is.

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