The Federal Reserve plans to provide an 8-billion dollar cash infusion Wednesday to facilitate lending during the holiday season. The money is essentially a low-interest loan to the nation's banks, to be repaid on January 10th. Madeleine Brand talks to Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer about the rising demand for money at the end of the year.
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