{"id":3006,"date":"2009-08-31T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2009-08-31T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:57:34","slug":"auditing-the-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/31\/auditing-the-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditing the Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank <a title=\"plans legislation\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125167261849670795.html?mod=djemTMB\" target=\"_blank\">plans legislation<\/a> to subject the Federal Reserve to a &#8220;complete audit&#8221; without encroaching on the central bank&#8217;s monetary policy independence.\u00a0 He&#8217;s teaming with Texas Republican Ron Paul in the effort.\u00a0 Former Federal Reserve Bank 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 Managment, can comment.<\/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>House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank plans legislation to subject the Federal Reserve to a &#8220;complete audit&#8221; without encroaching on the central bank&#8217;s monetary policy independence.\u00a0 He&#8217;s teaming with Texas Republican Ron Paul in the effort.\u00a0 Former Federal Reserve Bank examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Managment, can comment. [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}