Taylor ‘Rules’ Fed Independence In Question

Tuesday, March 27, 2012
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/27/2012

John Taylor, of the Taylor-Rule, who has not been sheepish with his views towards the Fed openly questioned the Fed’s independence during a speech to the Joint Economic Committee today. During his testimony at the hearing on the ‘Sound Dollar Act of 2012’, Taylor noted: “The discretionary interventions of the Federal Reserve have been ratcheted up in such unprecedented ways in recent years that they raise fundamental questions about the future of monetary policy.” Perhaps more pointedly, especially given Bernanke’s speech today on the Fed’s extreme actions and given the hope for a constant interventionist role for the Fed to keep our economy market afloat “The fact that the Fed can, if it chooses, intervene without limit into any credit market – raises more uncertainty, and of course raises questions about why an independent agency of government should have such power.”

Former St.Louis Fed head William Poole added “The bottom line is that use of the credit resources of the U.S. government should be decided by Congress and not by an appointed body such as the Federal Reserve,”

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