{"id":377626,"date":"2010-03-01T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33089"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:47:30","slug":"obama-gets-another-chance-to-make-mark-on-the-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377626","title":{"rendered":"Obama gets another chance to make mark on the Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>The Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fed Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn will retire June 23, according to a letter he submitted to Obama on Monday morning. His term as vice chairman ends that day, though Kohn, 67, could have elected to remain at the Fed as a governor through 2016&#8230;. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And as for that notion you may have heard elsewhere that the Fed is insulated from politics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have a hard time seeing hawkish board members being appointed for two reasons,&#8221; said Michael Feroli, a senior economist at J.P. Morgan Chase. &#8220;One, board members tend to go along with the chairman, and the chairman right now happens to be pretty growth friendly. And second I can&#8217;t see the administration given the current economic environment wanting to put in a Hoenig type.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/01\/AR2010030101139.html?hpid=topnews\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes Via The Washington Post: Fed Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn will retire June 23, according to a letter he submitted to Obama on Monday morning. His term as vice chairman ends that day, though Kohn, 67, could have elected to remain at the Fed as a governor through 2016&#8230;. And as for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}