Marv G: " However, and I think you'd agree, Anthony, that the central banks are 
more removed and therefore more insulated from popular pressures than the 
elected executive and legislative branches of the government."

I would challenge the "therefore" of this claim. Moreover, just _because_ 
central bankers are "more removed" from _electoral_ pressure they are _more_ 
free than are presidents and congress to respond to pressure. Consider the 
Supreme Court's decision on school segregation? It was _precisely_ the Court's 
"independence" from voters that made that decision possible.

There is a gap between junior-high civics textbooks and political actuality.

Carrol


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