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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Devil's Pick to Head the Fed: "capitalism is more important than democracy"
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Coming back to Stephen Moore's radicalism. The jaw-dropping line is "capitalism is more important than democracy" it's like a liberal caricature of what conservatives think, but it turns out to be what they actually think. But there's more 1/
Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'
Stephen Moore, who President Donald Trump announced last month as his nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, has a history of advocating self-described "radical" views on the economy and
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/12/politics/stephen-moore-kfile/index.html
What you can easily miss is that Moore is calling for what amounts to a loyalty purge at the Fed 2/
After all, what does Moore think makes those hundreds of economists worthless? He had multiple confrontations with Fed analysis in 2008 and after, in which he kept claiming that the Fed's policies would produce soaring inflation. Obviously Fed economists disagreed 3/
They were, of course, completely right; he was completely wrong. So on what basis does he declare them "worthless", with the wrong model? Well, their model is wrong in the sense that it doesn't confirm his (false) prejudices. 4/
It would be interesting to ask who he considers to be "good" economists. I'm sure that having been wrong about everything for the past decade plus is a key qualification. Anyway, the point isn't just that Moore is a bad analyst. He wants to purge anyone competent 5/
So people who suggest that a Moore appointment wouldn't be a disaster are missing the bigger picture. Trump is trying to do to the Fed what he's doing at DHS, purging the professionals and replacing them with apparatchiks. Moore would be just the beginning 6/
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The Devil's Pick to Head the Fed: "capitalism is more important than democracy" (Original Post)
CousinIT
Apr 2019
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HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)1. Hey, let's give the guy who wrote this book an important position:
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)2. Or should we ask
Who is John Galt??