When President Trump asked me to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, I was honored. Last week a reporter who has covered the Fed for 30 years told me he’d never seen anything like it. On Thursday I reluctantly threw in the towel and asked the president not to nominate me. I knew that many of my ideas on monetary policy were controversial and outside the box. That’s why the president picked me....

Source: Wall Street Journal May 02, 2019 22:55 UTC