Stimulus

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced it will cut its bond-buying program by $10 billion starting January. So what about this whole tapering thing? What’s it gonna mean for you and me and Aunt Mabel?

Now that some parts of the economy seem addicted to the Fed's stimulus, how does the central bank extricate it?

Heidi Moore from the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy join host Kai Ryssdal to look back at the week's business news and forward at where the economy is going after today's jobs report.

A 2009 extension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, expires today.

A report out this week shows that the projected $1.2 trillion increase in federal spending over the next 10 years will not trickle down much to spending on programs that affect children.

After the Fed's surprising announcement that it will continue stimulus spending, there are winners and losers. We sort them out.

The Federal Reserve's big surprise: no cuts to bond buying for now, the economy isn't strong enough.

The Federal Reserve's big surprise: no cuts to bond buying for now. And European investors gladly welcome the news.

About 75 percent of Americans couldn't identify the bond buying program from a multiple choice list. So it's not too late to ask: Quantitative Easing entails the FED buying bonds to keep interest rates down and encourage lending.

Experts predicted the Fed would reduce bond buying, but economic concerns means that the stimulus will continue.