It has been confirmed that today’s hearings on Federal Reserve policy will also be used to introduce HR1207 for debate by the members of the House Financial Services Committee. This will be a landmark day for the movement to open the books on the untouchable Central Bank.
Below is info on the event that will be streamed live at 1:30PM EST via the House Financial Services Committee Website.
Update: This will be carried on C-SPAN at 1:30 pm ET
On the web, tune in here:
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building.
The Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology will hold a hearing on: “Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence of the Federal Reserve in Monetary Policy with Systemic Risk Regulation”
Witness List & Prepared Testimony:
Panel One
- Mr. Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Panel Two
- Dr. Frederic Mishkin, Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
- Dr. Laurence Meyer, Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers
- Dr. James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/ Business Relations and Professor of Government, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
- Dr. Richard Berner, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley
- Dr. John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- Dr. Allan Meltzer, The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University