Narayana Kocherlakota, Columnist

Two Questions for Clinton About the Fed

Her positions on inflation and "bankers" need some explaining.

May 16, 2016 at 1:49 PM UTC

Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2009 to 2015.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has offered some much-needed detail about how she would handle the Federal Reserve, an institution with immense influence over the U.S. and global economy. Her plans, though, leave some key questions unanswered.

In a statement to the Washington Post, Clinton took two notable positions: