Federal Reserve – Scandals, Politics and Monetary Policymaking

Scandal

Lacker Resigns from Richmond Fed Over Role in Leaking Secret Information

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-04/fed-s-lacker-resigns-over-role-in-2012-leak-of-confidential-info
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/business/lacker-leak-fed.html

Trump and the Fed –

Fed's Challenge, After Raising Rates, May Be Existential

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/economy/fed-opposition-interest-rates.html

Money Shouldn't Choose the Next Fed Chair

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-22/money-shouldn-t-choose-the-next-fed-chair

Monetary Rules Debate

The Legislative Push to Mandate Rules-Based Monetary Policymaking in the US: The Latest Salvo in the Long-Running “Rules versus Discretion” Debate
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=72991

History

America's Central Bank: The History and Structure of the Federal Reserve

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20170328a.htm

Monetary Policymaking