{"id":2310,"date":"2009-07-16T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:41:50","slug":"dont-give-the-fed-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/16\/dont-give-the-fed-a-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t give the Fed a new job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2312\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/us-money.jpg\" alt=\"us-money\" width=\"83\" height=\"135\" \/>A debate is under way as to whether the Federal Reserve should be given more oversight powers to monitor risk in the U.S. banking system, as the Treasury secretary has proposed.\u00a0 Former Fed examiner <a title=\"Mark T. Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilliamsMark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark T. Williams<\/a>, who teaches finance in the School of Management, says the Fed doesn&#8217;t deserve and can&#8217;t handle any new responsibilities.\u00a0 In a Reuters <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2009\/07\/16\/dont-give-the-fed-a-new-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>, Williams says creating an independent Systematic Risk Oversight Board would be a smarter move.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Mark T. Williams, 617-358-2789, <a href=\"mailto:williams@bu.edu\">williams@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debate is under way as to whether the Federal Reserve should be given more oversight powers to monitor risk in the U.S. banking system, as the Treasury secretary has proposed.\u00a0 Former Fed examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Management, says the Fed doesn&#8217;t deserve and can&#8217;t handle any new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1480,577,1479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}