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Toward Sensible Monetary Policy
Last week the 112th Congress was sworn in. I am pleased that I will be
chairing the Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the Financial Services
Committee, which has oversight of the Federal Reserve. Obviously, this
position will facilitate my efforts to ensure the Fed provides the American
people with more information about what they have been doing with and to our
money. Not surprisingly, since my chairmanship was announced, apologists
for the Fed have been recycling the old canard about how increased
transparency threatens the Fed’s so-called political independence.
By independence, they are referring to the Fed’s ability to greatly impact
the economy with virtually no meaningful oversight. We only recently
learned that the bankers at the Fed were able to use the latest financial
crisis to bail out Wall Street cronies and foreign central banks with
billions of dollars that were created and wasted, instead of appropriated
and voted on by representatives of the people. The Fed and its supporters
in Congress vehemently fought even this small bit of transparency and
without this one-time provision in the financial reform act forcing
disclosure, we would still not have this information. Indeed, we are in the
dark on so much of what the Fed has done. This is extremely dangerous for
our country, yet this power and secrecy is defended as some kind of public
good, which is patently ridiculous.
Our government is based on a system of checks and balances. With no check
on the Fed, it is no surprise it has thrown the economy wildly off balance.
The solution is not to re-inflate the bubbles the Fed created, or to
continue to devalue the currency, or to throw billions at failing banks and
corporations. The solution is to return sanity and freedom to monetary
policy. Forcing the entire country to use a medium of exchange that is
subject to the whims of elite bankers and their cronies on Wall Street is
not sanity. Hoping that an unchecked, all-powerful, behemoth banking cartel
will solve any economic problem is not sanity.
The problems the Fed was originally created to solve now look miniscule
compared to the problems it has created. If “political independence”
erodes the purchasing power of the currency by 98%, destabilizes the economy
with radical booms and busts, all while increasing unemployment and tipping
us ever closer to hyperinflation, perhaps it is time to try a little
transparency and accountability instead. Better still – we should try
giving the people true economic freedom.
Make no mistake: the Fed is not truly independent of political pressure.
Its chair is appointed by the president, and it is a creature of Congress.
Congress has a duty, albeit a neglected one, to exercise oversight of the
Fed. However, even if it was politically independent, it is not independent
of the influences of Wall Street. One only has to look at the revolving
door between the Fed and the big banks to know that. Disclosures on TARP
funds confirm this.
It is nothing short of cruel and criminal for Congress to stand idly by
while the life savings of Americans are inflated away to nothing. It is
high time Congress insist on getting complete information on what the Fed
has been doing, and for whom. My hope is that exposing the truth will
demonstrate the insanity of the status quo and more people will call for
sensible changes, such as legalizing competing currencies. | a********6
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: Toward Sensible Monetary Policy
: Last week the 112th Congress was sworn in. I am pleased that I will be
: chairing the Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the Financial Services
: Committee, which has oversight of the Federal Reserve. Obviously, this
: position will facilitate my efforts to ensure the Fed provides the American
: people with more information about what they have been doing with and to our
: money. Not surprisingly, since my chairmanship was announced, apologists
: for the Fed have been recycling the old canard about how increased
: transparency threatens the Fed’s so-called political independence.
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