# In an op-ed, Prof. Amity Shlaes calls for reform in the Federal Reserve

1 Faculty News September 17, 2013 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/currentevents/2013/09/17/the-monetary-church-bring-on-the-iconoclasts/?utm_source=followingimmediate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130917) -- "Bernanke’s church in this instance is our monetary church, the institution that ordains easier money no matter what direction interest rates take or what history’s record suggests we do."

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