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Clarifying How the Fed Is Political

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2018

Rick Valelly
Rick Valelly*
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Swarthmore College
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Symposium: American Oligarchy? The Concealed Politics of the Federal Reserve Bank
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 747 - 750
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2018 

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