Robert Wenzel’s ‘David’ Speech Crushes Federal Reserve’s ‘Goliath’ Dream

Robert Wenzel’s ‘David’ Speech Crushes Federal Reserve’s ‘Goliath’ Dream (ZeroHedge, April 27, 2012):

In perhaps the most courageous (and likely must-read for future economists) speech ever given inside the New York Fed’s shallowed hallowed walls, Economic Policy Journal’s Robert Wenzel delivered the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to the monetary priesthood. Gracious from the start, Wenzel takes the Keynesian clap-trappers to task on almost every nonsensical and oblivious decision they have made in recent years.

“My views, I suspect, differ from beginning to end… I stand here confused as to how you see the world so differently than I do. I simply do not understand most of the thinking that goes on here at the Fed and I do not understand how this thinking can go on when in my view it smacks up against reality.”

and further…

“I scratch my head that somehow your conclusions about unemployment are so different than mine and that you call for the printing of money to boost ‘demand’. A call, I add, that since the founding of the Federal Reserve has resulted in an increase of the money supply by 12,230%.”

But his closing was tremendous:

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