{"id":185202,"date":"2011-09-13T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/13\/have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-barney-frank\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:03:00","slug":"have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-barney-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/13\/have-i-mentioned-that-i-love-barney-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I Mentioned that I Love Barney Frank?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s calling for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-09-12\/house-s-frank-renews-push-to-oust-regional-presidents-from-fomc.html\">major restructuring of the Federal Reserve<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>U.S. Representative Barney Frank, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, is renewing a push to remove Federal Reserve regional presidents from voting on central bank interest-rate decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, of Massachusetts, will submit a new version of legislation to cut the voting rights of five rotating regional representatives from the 12-member Federal Open Markets Committee, he said today. The revision of Frank\u2019s May proposal calls for replacing them with four presidential appointees, according to a position paper released by his office.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating regional presidents, who are selected by board members of their banks and approved by Fed governors, will make interest-rate votes more democratic, Frank said in the paper. The 7-3 vote at the last FOMC meeting in August underlined the need to replace the presidents, who have become a \u201csignificant constraint on national economic policy making,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Regional presidents \u201care neither elected nor appointed by officials who are themselves elected,\u201d Frank wrote in the paper. \u201cThey are part of a self-perpetuating group of private citizens who select each other and who are treated as equals in setting federal monetary policy with officials appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right, of course.  The regional Feds are not governmental organizations, they are quite literally owned by the regional banks they nominally regulate, and these people are therefore the employees of the regional banks.<\/p>\n<p>Anything that to any degree takes any governmental (or in this quasi-governmental) agency out from under the thumb of the banksters is a good thing.<sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/\">the General would say<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s calling for a major restructuring of the Federal Reserve: U.S. Representative Barney Frank, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, is renewing a push to remove Federal Reserve regional presidents from voting on central bank interest-rate decisions. Frank, of Massachusetts, will submit a new version of legislation to cut the voting rights &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,998,1004,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}