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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy is an investigative economics book by Christopher Leonard that examines the Federal Reserve’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and its long aftermath. Rather than offering a standard institutional history, the book focuses on how ultra-low interest rates, quantitative easing, and other emergency measures became a prolonged era of easy money that reshaped markets, corporate behavior, and inequality. Leonard explains the Fed as a central force in modern American life, showing how decisions made inside a technically complex and politically insulated institution could affect asset prices, debt markets, employment, and public confidence. The book is written for general readers but grounded in reporting on policymakers, traders, and economists, making a difficult subject accessible without losing its structural critique. Its purpose is not only to explain monetary policy, but to question who benefited from it, who was left behind, and why the recovery after the crisis felt so uneven across the economy.