Here’s a video of Rep. Alan Grayson interrogating the Federal Reserve’s General Counsel Scott Alvarez. The topic is the Fed’s alleged independence. It’s good theater, I will look for more of the same. It’s about time that we show some public snarkishness toward the Fed, given its chronic failure to make its operations transparent. A world-class audit of the Fed is long overdue.
The Fed on the hot seat
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:September 28, 2009
- Post category:Economy
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
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