Comment by pas

3 years ago

it's not a clarification.

the ownership and stocks are entirely legacy symbolic gargoyles on a standard central bank. independent government agency. it's a loosely coupled top-down public institution, the monetary policy is set by a public committee,

> it's a loosely coupled top-down public institution

Indeed. Here I was thinking we'd shed the last of this "independent Fed" legal fiction during the "Great Recession."