Friday, April 12, 2013

Federal Reserve Critics

There always has been anger against the Federal Reserve. The idea of a quasi-government agency, the head of which is appointed by the president, independent of congressional influence, has always been suspect.
                       
The role of the twelve regional Fed banks has also been questioned. They are overseen by private-sector boards of directors, composed mainly of commercial bankers. That never pleases the Left.

Dodd-Frank financial regulation has, in effect. tilted the influence on the Fed in many ways, giving the executive branch of government much more power that it ever had.
                       
Recent actions show a bias toward administration easy money policies that foster inflation that the fed is supposed to help counter. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinesNewshole at Twitter.)

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