Bill Foster: “I hope that my Republican and Democratic colleagues come together to vote for the WRDA bill to prevent this catastrophe.”

Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis.

While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Federal Reserve Board.

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.

I have been amused for a long time at how can it be that there is legislation supported by 70 or 80 percent of the public, a clear majority of Members of Congress, and yet we are not allowed to even vote on it.