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U.S. small businesses may need up to $500 billion a month to ensure their survival through the coronavirus crisis, the head of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday as Fed officials voiced concern over the speed and breadth of the country's fiscal response to an unprecedented economic slowdown.

“What gold is telling you is that down the road, past June, they're looking for inflation,” says George Gero, managing director at RBC Global Wealth Management.

In an op-ed, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President, Neel Kashkari, said that raising that amount from private investors today would ensure that large banks can support the economy over a broad range of virus scenarios.

Coronavirus pushes Fed's Beige to deliver grim economic snapshot.

Officials call for for near- universal testing and fuller fiscal backstops

Widespread testing or other ways to mitigate risk, even business by business or school by school, are key to reopening the economy, he said.

The program announced on March 17, will begin making purchases on Tuesday according to the New York Fed

Even after approving a broad set of lending and credit programs, “we are not just sitting on our hands," Bostic said

Deflation refers to a more chronic problem where goods and services on average are actually getting cheaper,

The U.S. central bank has responded to the crisis by unleashing its full firepower to support the economy.

Federal Reserve officials are working to help the economy rebound quickly once businesses that were shuttered because of the virus begin to reopen.

U.S. markets had one of it's best weeks in 45 years

A lending program that the Fed announced Thursday is one of several measures the central bank has taken in recent weeks to protect the economy from a virtual shutdown ordered to help limit the spread of the viral disease.

Powell said policymakers at the U.S. central bank are committed to using the full scope of their vast powers to support the economy.

The loans will provide support to households and businesses of all sizes and help governments deliver critical services to combat disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.   

FOX Business interviewed nearly a dozen small business owners about the government's virus-related small business loan program – intended to give these companies access to cheap capital until the worst of the pandemic is over and the economy can recover. Their stories are strikingly similar.

The central bank on Wednesday released minutes from two emergency meetings, held on March 2 and March 15.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it would temporarily ease its asset cap on Wells Fargo to encourage the bank to lend to small businesses harmed by the outbreak of coronavirus.

Bernanke believes it could be a couple years before the economy regains its footing.

More than $40 billion worth of PPP loans to small businesses had been processed as of Monday afternoon.