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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who has reached legend status in the world of central banking, isn't optimistic about current conditions.
When he looks around now, he sees "a hell of a mess in every direction," including a lack of basic respect for government institutions, a current Fed that seems to be following a completely arbitrary benchmark and a "swamp" in Washington run by plutocrats.
"At least the military still has all the respect. But I don't know, how can you run a democracy when nobody believes in the leadership of the country?" Volcker asks New York Times columnist and CNBC "Squawk Box" co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin in a column for the newspaper's DealBook section.
"Tall Paul" is most known for willfully taking the country into recession in the early 1980s to finally defeat the inflation that had been strangling the economy. Since then, he's lent his name to the "Volcker Rule" part of banking reform legislation that restricts risk-taking at big Wall Street institutions.
In a book set for release Oct. 30, Volcker laments the current state of conditions, particularly the monied interests eating away at the system of governing.
"There is no force on earth that can stand up effectively, year after year, against the thousands of individuals and hundreds of millions of dollars in the Washington swamp aimed at influencing the legislative and electoral process," he writes, according to Sorkin.
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)We are in a Clusterfuck....not a hell of a mess...
Just wish more people will speak up and point this out and come up with some solutions...
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)unblock
(52,252 posts)or something he did more recently?
Wounded Bear
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(52,252 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Has been updated on what is going on at the V.A? They are trying to close it down.
RainCaster
(10,883 posts)The FBI was totally complicit in the Kavanaugh investigation.
The CIA has been strangely silent for the last two years.
Look how great our country has become when our prez gets his daily briefing from Faux News.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Since it's my military service that allows me access.