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Fed Faces Criticism as Political Season Intensifies

 

Don’t mess with Texas, at least when it comes t0 monetary policy.

Rick Perry, the latest entrant into the race for the Republican presidential nomination and already among the frontrunners, fired a shot across the bow of the Federal Reserve Monday. “If this guy prints more money between now and the election,” the Lone Star state’s governor said “it would be almost…treasonous.”

That kind of scathing criticism of the Fed usually was leveled behind closed doors. In the same Texas tradition, in the 1960s President Lyndon B. Johnson excoriated then-Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin for raising interest. But that was …

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