The Political Federal Reserve

                   

Central banks were set up for independent banking functions, on the premise it’s best for a country to keep its financial system from political influences.

                       

Politicians have always had a tendency to use financial and economic pressure to change any banking independence during stressful economic times.

                       

How are major central banks doing with regard to their current national financial crises?

                       

The Bank of England had been relatively independent but is now rather involved with its government bond market. The Bank of Japan often has been politically directed.

                       

Congress, which always loosely supervised the Fed now wants  more disclosure, which exerts pressure.

                       

However, the Dodd-Frank Act has the Fed go more deeply into the American economy than it had before, and present Fed Chairs have had a tendency to lean more to administration policy. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at

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