Bill Foster: “Ensuring the integrity, transparency, and accuracy of this data, free from political influence, is crucial to keeping us…”

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.

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

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

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----