Trump Offers Fed Post to Stephen Moore, Campaign Adviser

The New York Times ^ | March 22, 2019 | Jim Tankersley

[be-baw]

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday he has offered a position on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors to Stephen Moore, a conservative economic adviser who has become an outspoken critic of the Fed’s interest-rate policy.

Mr. Moore, who has criticized the Fed for raising interest rates over the past year, is an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation who helped draft Mr. Trump’s tax proposals in the 2016 campaign. As a nominee, Mr. Moore would face intense criticism in the Senate from Democrats, with whom he has clashed on several economic issues in his career as a commentator and policy advocate.

[be-baw]

Good.

[Dog]

Good pick

[mewzilla]

AWESOME pick.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

👍👏

[V_TWIN]

Mr. Kelly Conway however, is not amused.

[Grampa Dave]

This will drive the insane elitists liberals and their mediots even crazier!

[V_TWIN]

Sorry, Mr. Kelly Ann Conway

[mewzilla]

And for anyone unfamiliar with Moore, and since the NYT just happened to leave out quite a bit about the dude, from Heritage....

Stephen Moore Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Project for Economic Growth, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Good choice.

[mewzilla]

And the Creature from Jekyll Island just excreted a brick.

[Moonman62]

The yield curve is now partially inverted. The Fed should be lowering interest rates today.

[Moonman62]

This is a great pick and there is still one more vacancy.

[donozark]

I nominate Steve Forbes.

[Alberta's Child]

I like Moore as a political/economic pundit, but I'm not sure he's cut out for this role.

Someone posted an article from him in the last few months on interest rate policy, and I was frankly surprised at what appeared to be a bizarre line of thinking on his part.

[drypowder]

How can you not like Trump? Great choice, I hope he accepts!

[jimfree]

A Fed post goes to one of the “guys named Steve?” Bloody awesome!

[PGR88]

No President will ever appoint someone who thinks the Federal Reserve is an unconstitutional, currency-destroying, soviet-style central planning agency.

That’s why appointing Moore, or anyone else, doesn’t matter.

[mewzilla]

Have you read any of his books? If not, I recommend them. :-)

[mewzilla]

If we can’t end the Fed, maybe we can, at the very least, defang it.. ?