A two-hour documentary special traces the road to this moment, and the role of the Federal Reserve, the country's central bank.

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FRONTLINE investigates the Fed's epic economic experiment to revive the U.S. economy with what has been called an "easy money" policy and the far-reaching and sometimes unintended consequences. 

"If we hadn't been driving our economy for 14 years with easy money and then tried to really quickly undo that now, we wouldn't be having these problems," former top banking regulator Sheila Bair said in the documentary.

From the 2008 recession, to the COVID pandemic, to the rise in inflation, to the current economic uncertainty, "Age of Easy Money" charts the American economy's tumultuous course, the fragility of the financial system and the widening gap between Wall Street and Main Street.

The documentary examines what led to the Fed's recent decisions to hike interest rates at a historic pace and probes the ongoing effects, offering a comprehensive and timely examination of the role of the institution at the heart of America's economy.