Around the country and across the world, the threat of a recession is looming and economic uncertainty is rising. Markets, businesses and individuals are adjusting to a new reality: the end of the easy money era. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates and pulling back on its epic monetary experiment that started with the 2007- 2008 global financial crisis.

From the award-winning team behind The Facebook Dilemma and Amazon Empire, the two-hour documentary Age of Easy Money investigates how the Fed’s experiment has changed the American economy.

To learn more about this project, read this essay by Raney Aronson-Rath, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer at FRONTLINE.

You can also explore what Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse says about the easy money era ending, and examine three numbers that help explain what happened to inequality during the pandemic.