Morning Scan: Dallas Fed's New Head; Greenspan vs. Dodd-Frank

08/18/15

A New Head in the Fed: The new president of the Dallas Federal Reserve is something of a mystery man. Robert Steven Kaplan's background as a former Goldman Sachs executive and management professor at Harvard Business School is well known; what's less clear are his views on monetary policy. This enigma is exciting a lot of interest among observers, since Kaplan will be highly influential as a member of the Fed's policy-setting committee when hisÂ...

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