Interesting article about how the Federal Reserve dominates the academic field of economics.
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
Source: Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
“Great Myths of the Great Depression” is a fascinating analysis of the Great Depression. The popular myth is that laissez faire policies caused the Depression and government intervention was what finally ended it. Lawrence Reed points out that the Federal Reserve “presided over a dramatic contraction of the money supply that began late in the decade [of the 1920s]. The federal government’s responses to the resulting recession took a bad situation and made it far, far worse.”
Read the full story here: “Great Myths of the Great Depression”