No, Mr. Diamond, the Fed Doesn’t Need Your Expertise

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  June 6th at 08:09 AM  | 

Peter A. Diamond, a professor of economics at MIT, has just published a hissy fit in the NY Times titled “When a Nobel Prize isn’t enough.” I won’t link the piece because of the Times’s paywall, so I’ll just tell you what he says. Diamond wants to be a governor of the Federal Reserve. Barack Obama wants the same thing, having nominated Diamond three times | Read More »