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Petition Calls for Fed Autonomy

“The petition has been signed by three winners of the Nobel Prize in economics — Daniel McFadden, Robert Merton and Eric Maskin — and five former presidents of the American Economics Association as well as the current president, Angus Deaton of Princeton University, and the president-elect, Robert Hall of Stanford University. The president of the American Finance Association, Darrell Duffie of Stanford, and four of his predecessors also signed, as did two former Fed governors, Laurence Meyer and Frederic Mishkin.”