The Fed shouldn't actually get political, says former New York fed chair who wrote it should

Former New York Federal Reserve Chair Bill Dudley's Bloomberg op-ed didn't get the reception he was hoping for. In an opinion article published last week, Dudley argued that the Fed needed to "stop enabling" President Trump and his "economic disaster in the making," and was promptly slammed by both sides of the aisle. So Dudley provided a follow-up Q&A on Wednesday to clarify why he told the Fed to get political -- or rather to claim that he didn't do so in the first place. In his original colum...