Graham. The coowner and with my wife and behalf of the entire staff i would like to wem you. A few notes it would be a good time to turn off your cellphone or anything that might go beep. When we get to the q and a part of the session try to make your way to the microphones. We are recording for our Youtube Channel and cspan tv is here. Finally, when we get to the end of the program, before you come up to have your books signed our staff would appreciate it if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and lean them against something that will not topple over. I am delighted to be detrointroducing evan thomas. He is a wonderfully fluid writer and engaging and someone who has enjoyed two remarkable careers. One living in the presence as an accomplished journalist and the other living in the past as a firstrate historian. In journalism he spent ten years with Time Magazine moving to news week staying for 20 years. He was Washington Bureau chief and assisting managing editor and editor at
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Halfway through the first volume of the landmark history of the Federal Reserve. Not only having worked at the Federal Reserve, but having had lunch many, many times talking about his history, i have followed closely over time the massive transformations that has occurred at the fed, just since the financial crisis but over my lifetime. And before, and to think that the first 10 years of my life we were on the Gold Standard, you know, it suggests that things have changed a lot. And so when a friend at the wall street journal called up to ask if i would review a new book by a university of pennsylvania professor named peter contibrown called that are independent of the Federal Reserve, i jumped at the chance because of two things. One, i really do love that they. I think it had a big positive impact on my professional life at its a very important place in washington filled with people who want to do the right thing. They sometimes fail but i love the spirit of the food. The second thing
And other agencies, creating the very best bailout protection we could have in the future would mean that the equity holders, not the taxpayers, are standing behind financial risks. Senator brown of ohio, a liberal democrat come and senator vitter of louisiana, a conservative republican, have backed just such a bill. The second is to free these amazing new innovations in personal health information, such as smartphone monitoring apps, and personal genetic profiling techniques such as those up 23 and me from fda premarketing controls. Senator deb fischer of nebraska, republican, senator angus king of maine, independent, democrat he caucuses with the democrats have been it is pretty good piece of legislation along those lines. I have a particularly colorful phrase in my article. I said if these acts were to pass and actually take power away from the regulators in these two areas, they would be great victories for bipartisan, smart populism over the forces of faux expertise in crony capit