Missing the Point – The Fed ‘Committee’ we need to do something about

Increasing interest rates is making matters worse and hurting the real families who, collectively, comprise the economy we’re always talking about.  What can we do about it?  Congress needs to modify the language of the Fed’s independent agency status and rescind the Fed’s authority to make economic policy outside of representative government.  Take the Fed out of business of fighting inflation. 

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The Chicken, the Price of Eggs and the Chairman of the Fed: Using Monetary Policy to Curb Inflation

The prices of consumer products have gone up, some more so than others, because of issues in their respective submarkets.  In a world of microeconomics, national, indiscriminate, macroeconomic monetary policy is a gross instrument with limited power.  It’s the dumb bomb when what we need are precisely targeted policies capable of dealing delicately, but nonetheless effectively with highly variable, complex market relationships with minimum side effects.

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