Federal Reserve presidents traded millions in stocks and funds while setting the monetary policy that moved those same markets β€” documented evidence
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In 2021, it was revealed that Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan made multiple $1 million+ trades in stocks during 2020 while helping set pandemic monetary policy, and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren traded funds invested in mortgage-backed securities while the Fed was buying MBS. Both resigned within hours of each other. Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida also traded a fund the day before a major Fed policy announcement. The OIG found no laws were technically broken because Fed ethics rules were so weak.

Federal Reserve presidents traded millions in stocks and funds while setting the monetary policy that moved those same markets

FINΒ·September 7, 2021Β·By Federal Reserve OIG InvestigatorsΒ·3.8K upvotesΒ·167 comments
What They Said Was Crazy
β€œFederal Reserve officials are personally trading millions of dollars in financial assets while making the monetary policy decisions that directly move those same markets.”
β€” Federal Reserve OIG InvestigatorsSeptember 7, 2021Source

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A timeline of the Federal Reserve's trading scandal (Yahoo Finance)
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OIG Investigation Closing Report on Reserve Bank Trading (Federal Reserve OIG)
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