JUDY SHELTON FOR THE FED

Coronavirus, Judy Shelton, and the Federal ReserveA Major Newspaper Wants To Quarantine the Nominee’s Ideas
Editorial of The New York Sun | March 4, 2020
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/coronavirus-judy-shelton-and-the-fed/91037/

The Classical Gold Standard Can Inform Monetary Policy
quoting Michael D. Bordo, Milton Friedman via CATO
Watching the frenzy surrounding Judy Shelton's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on February 13, one is led to believe that the gold standard is a "nutty" idea, for which no serious economist or monetary policymaker could possibly have a kind word. 

Joseph Sternberg, author, The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future; and WSJ editorial board; in re: Judy Shelton’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board in the Senate is under abeyance.   Where’s productivity?  Why does Judy Shelton think that even if we work as hard as we can, we can’t match the productivity of our parents’s (or grandparents’s) generation: because we need to return to some form of the gold standard, which would put the Fed out of business is several matters. This is because of the Fed, which has been unable to keep up. Price signals are going wild because the dollar and other currencies are unmoored; when central banks try to manipulate value, productivity cannot be maintained.
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Judy Shelton was director of the Sound Money Project at the Atlas Network; in 2012 she joined TheGoldStandardNow.Org as a senior advisor.  In March 2018, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the United States director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.  Shelton is known as a critic of the Federal Reserve. She has called for a 0% inflation target, contradicting the bank's current 2% target. She has written that a "fundamental question" of economics is, "Why do we need a central bank?"

Why Judy Shelton Would Be a Boon For Federal Reserve
By JOHN TAMNY, Special to the Sun | February 17, 2020
https://www.nysun.com/national/why-judy-shelton-would-be-a-boon-for-federal/91017/

Judy Shelton Would Help Redeem Republican Promises
Editorial of The New York Sun | February 12, 2020
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/judy-shelton-and/91010/

Judy Shelton's Moral Contract
Editorial of The New York Sun | February 13, 2020
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/judy-sheltons-moral-compass/91013/

The best move for President Trump after today's hearing for his nominees to the Federal Reserve would be to withdraw his nomination of Christopher Waller and stick with Judy Shelton. That's our reaction to the calls for Mr. Trump to withdraw Ms. Shelton after a premeditated attack on her by the Democrats and one or two Republicans. It was a disgraceful performance.
No single feature of it was quite as disgraceful as the question Senator Sherrod Brown put to Mr. Waller and the answer Mr. Waller delivered. "Given Ms. Shelton's answers on monetary policy and thirty years writing on the gold standard," the oleaginous Ohioan asked Mr. Waller, "would you recommend we confirm her to the Fed?"
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