R Grim: Priceless: How The Fed Bought The Economics Professi

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Wed, 09/09/2009 - 16:40

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.


 

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