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Ekrub
12-14-2010, 11:52 AM
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Feds-Contrarian-With-a-nytimes-1157175662.html?x=0


KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All year, Thomas M. Hoenig has been saying no.

As the lone dissenter on the Federal Reserve committee that sets interest rates, Mr. Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, has been a persistent skeptic of just about everything the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has done to try to stimulate the flagging recovery.

Mr. Hoenig’s latest, loudest objections , aimed at the Fed’s risky $600 billion infusion into the markets to reinvigorate the economy, have made him a champion of the Fed’s critics in Congress, on Wall Street and among business leaders, who, like Mr. Hoenig, fear that the central bank is risking runaway inflation, asset bubbles and a weakened dollar.

Sucks that he won't have a vote next year. He's not perfect (believes in manipulating interest rates for a short time), but at least he acknowledges the Fed caused the dot com bubble and the housing bubble and understands that we risk serious inflation.