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While we’re assured by the financial press that the Fed is full of Very Serious People, it’s alarming how clueless some members of the Fed seem to be about the current operations of the central bank. The latest example is Neel Kashkari’s take that the injections into the repo market have no impact on equity pricing.

That there are inherent benefits in diversity is a common article of faith in our democratic/populist times. We hear it in and about universities, businesses, politics, entertainment, etc. Typically, though, we hear about it in terms of forcing more diversity on those whose diversity in a particular dimension doesn’t measure up to someone else’s arbitrary standard.