No doubt about it — this Administration has a “boys club” at the highest level. And, if people feel so insistent that appointing Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board will be important to righting that balance, by all means, pick her. But, do not mistake that calculation with making a choice in policy differences.
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Robert Rubin Mouthing Off: The Turd That Won’t Go Away
Posted on 27 July 2013.
Robert Rubin is like that turd that just won’t flush away. You know, no matter how many time you keep pressing the lever, it sticks around. That’s Robert Rubin. And here he is again, swirling around the toilet bowl of corrupt politics, of financial elite arrogance, mouthing off when, in a just world, he’d either be in jail, without a job or, at least, irrelevant.
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Fed Fog
Posted on 26 July 2013.
The absurdity of the debate about who should be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is NOT in the debate about Larry Summers versus Janet Yellin. Nope. It’s in the questions not being asked.
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The Larry Summers Head Fake: Brilliant
Posted on 24 July 2013.
I think the White House has been brilliant just this once. The nonsense about Larry Summers being the leading candidate to replace Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is an elaborate ploy designed to do one thing: avoid real questions about the Fed.
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