http://dagblog.com/link/krugman-when-trump-comes-fed-23667 Comments for "Krugman: when Trump comes for the Fed" en http://dagblog.com/comment/243820#comment-243820 <a id="comment-243820"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/krugman-when-trump-comes-fed-23667">Krugman: when Trump comes for the Fed</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div> <div> <div> <p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-11/trump-is-said-to-meet-with-economist-john-taylor-in-fed-search">Trump to Meet With Economist John Taylor This Week</a></p> By Jennifer Jacobs and Craig Torres @ Bloomberg.com <div>October 11, 2017, 5:41 PM EDT</div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <ul><li> <div><em>Stanford economist is known for theories on rule-based policy</em></div> </li> <li> <div><em>Taylor wants Fed to tell public more about policy strategy</em></div> </li> </ul></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:12:19 +0000 artappraiser comment 243820 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/243780#comment-243780 <a id="comment-243780"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/krugman-when-trump-comes-fed-23667">Krugman: when Trump comes for the Fed</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Forget Congress, to me this on possible candidate Warsh</p> <blockquote> <p>What all this means is that if congressional Republicans play a large role in selecting the next Fed chair, they’ll insist that it be someone who has been wrong about everything for the past decade.</p> <p>Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor widely considered a favorite for the job, certainly fits the bill. He <a href="https://medium.com/@sam_a_bell/jared-kushner-for-fed-chair-4d7c33817d8f">warned about inflation</a> in the midst of global economic collapse; he <a href="https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/the-conventional-superstition/">argued vigorously</a> against doing anything, monetary or other, to fight 10 percent unemployment; he warned that the United States was about to turn into Greece, <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/kevin20100628a.htm">Greece I tell you</a>. And he has shown no hint of being chastened by the failure of events to play out the way he expected.</p> </blockquote> <p>sounds EXACTLY up Trump's alley, a compatriot in <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/243779#comment-243779"> iconoclasm for (narcissistic) iconoclasm's sake.</a></p> </div></div></div> Wed, 11 Oct 2017 05:32:07 +0000 artappraiser comment 243780 at http://dagblog.com