The Republicans have been fighting the appointment of Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board claiming he wasn’t qualified.
As Paul Krugman notes Peter Diamond, Dale Mortenson, and Chris Pissarides were just awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Why are the Republicans afraid of having someone who obviously understands economics on the board of the Fed?
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