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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama should pick Stanley Fisher for Fed Chairman
He's just finished his stint as Bank of Israel Governor, and is available for the asking. Sadly Obama won't ask him to serve, even though it would be the best possible choice for our country. Certainly far better than the two serious contenders.
http://www.cfr.org/economics/stanley-fischer-former-bank-israel-governor-former-imf-world-bank-official-joins-cfr-distinguished-fellow/p31332
Mass
(27,315 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Yellin is an EXCELLENT candidate.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Fisher is incredibly brilliant with a wealth of experience. He is also a liberal. Yellen is considered very, very second rate by my source.
Mass
(27,315 posts)As far as I can see, he is no different from Rubin and I would not want Rubin. So, what are your evidence he is liberal?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Sorry, but I disagree with you.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I can't say any more than that.
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)pnwmom
(108,959 posts)after the crash, in September 2009.
Plus he's been associated with Citigroup and the Hoover Institution. No thanks!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Fisher has many associations, some good some not so good, as do all the top contenders for the job. Point being that Fisher is much more qualified than the others.
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)the male genitalia traditionally required of anyone in that position.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Cause, you know, male genitalia has always been a prerequisite for U.S. president. But maybe you, like me, broke the mold and supported Hillary.
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)and I knew I'd support either one in the general.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)Citigroup and Bilderberg is a reference for Fed chair on DU?
KG
(28,751 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Safe smart choice. Not sure why Summers was even considered.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)says Kohn was just a wretched bureaucrat at the Fed, who cared nothing about research. He considers Ferguson a nobody.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)I'd think that would disqualify him.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)pnwmom
(108,959 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)pnwmom
(108,959 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)pnwmom
(108,959 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Are you so naive that you think U.S. citizens ONLY work in the U.S.? And, actually, he was born in Rhodesia, so he is truly a citizen of the world. Anyway I'm checking out for the night. Will look at this thread tomorrow. I was just trying to offer a helpful suggestion. I did not intend to get into a fight.
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)This isn't about just working in Israel for a number of years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/15/stan-fischer-saved-israels-economy-can-he-save-americas/
Though he did not relinquish the U.S. citizenship he had held since 1976, he became an Israeli citizen upon arrival, in accordance with the law of return for non-Israeli Jews.
It was not, however, Fischers first time living in Israel. He had taken frequent vacations and sabbaticals to the country with his wife, Rhoda, throughout his academic career. Nor was it his first time providing it with academic expertise. In the mid-1980s, when he was at MIT, he advised the Israeli government on how to extricate itself from its inflation crisis. Later that decade, he along with Anna Karasik, Leonard Hausman and the Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling was part of a project attempting to put together economic solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Hausman remembers Fischer mostly as a fiercely competent and easy-to-work-with project leader, but identifies a passion for the subject as well. Israel, I think, always was a big part of his heart and mind, Hausman said. But also, Stanley was and is a big believer in Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace on reasonable terms.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)He would at least have to explain to Congress how his loyalties are once again with the United States, rather than the foreign country.
pnwmom
(108,959 posts)without saying anything about their qualifications?
Fisher is a crony of Summers, who supports him strongly, so it's not surprising his name should start popping up now that Summers has resigned. And his magic trick with Israel's economy -- a massive devaluation of their currency -- worked fine for a small economy but would wreak havoc in the world if the US tried it. I do not see his experience has provided any better preparation for the job than Janet Yellin's, who's already at the Federal Reserve in the number 2 spot.
But of course the men in the old boys club are calling for the President to appoint someone from outside. That's what the men usually do when a woman is the natural successor within a banking organization.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/15/stan-fischer-saved-israels-economy-can-he-save-americas/
He was recruited by Lawrence H. Summers, who had gotten his first academic job at MIT on Fischers recommendation, and who was at that point undersecretary of Treasury for international affairs. We in the Treasury thought it was obvious that the strongest possible person for that position was Stan Fischer, and urged his appointment on the IMF, Summers said.
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Being governor of a small countrys central bank during a worldwide financial crisis isnt anyones idea of a fun job. Israel, like many other nations, was hit with the consequences of screw-ups made on Wall Street and in Washington. U.S. policymakers could have, in theory, prevented the crisis; at his post in Israel, Fischer had no such ability. But Fischer had a weapon of his own: the shekel. Central banks generally have a lot of control over how much their countries currencies are worth relative to others. And reducing a currencys value increases a countrys exports, which can often lead to economic growth.
Big central banks tend to be cautious about using that lever. If Bernanke halved the value of the dollar relative to, say, the Chinese yuan, that would dramatically increase U.S. exports and probably economic growth, too, but it would also wreak havoc with the global financial system. Every dollar-denominated asset in the world, including all manner of bonds, would plummet in value.
Its less risky for small countries. There arent massive piles of shekels lying around in other countries the way there are with dollars and euros, and Fischer took advantage of that fact. On May 30, 2008, a dollar was worth about 3.2 shekels. On March 6, 2009, it was worth 4.2 shekels. In less than a year, Fischer had reduced the value of the shekel by about 25 percent a massive devaluation.
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