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Valuing the dollar
This WSJ opinion begins:
When I was president of the Dallas Fed, Alan Greenspan wouldn’t let me, or other members of the Federal Open Market Committee (including himself), talk about the dollar. The dollar was so sacred, or so fragile, that only Treasury secretaries were allowed to discuss it — but convention silenced them too.