Kevin Warsh is a lawyer by trade, who is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at Stanford. He was a Fed Governor from 2006 to 2011, which was the heart of the financial crisis. Prior to the Fed, he worked at the National Economic Council under the GW Bush administration and at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. Since leaving the Federal Reserve, Warsh has published a number of op-eds where he has expressed his frustration with the Fed’s easy policy stance. Below are a few representative quotes from his op-eds and from the Fed transcripts.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
