Thursday, December 11, 2014

**Special Edition TSS*** American Principles in Action and 20 Public Policy Groups Call on Fed to Meet with Conservatives

Yesterday, as reported by Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-09/conservatives-ask-fed-for-access-to-yellen-s-promise-factory-.html , MarketWatch http://www.marketwatch.com/story/conservative-activists-make-pitch-for-fed-audience-2014-12-09, FoxBusiness http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3932765635001/did-yellen-secretly-meet-with-democrats/#sp=show-clips, and the Daily Caller http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/09/conservatives-demand-equal-treatment-from-the-fed/, American Principles in Action, leading a coalition of 20 public policy groups, including ATR's Grover Norquist, hand-delivered a letter to Fed Chair Janet Yellen to the headquarters of the Federal Reserve, stating, in part:

We share your deep concern over the persistent lack of economic mobility and job creation...

The left by no means has a monopoly on concern for unemployment and wage stagnation.  To balance a meeting with a group composed of, as described by Bloomberg News, “labor and community organizers” with one of the leading representatives of the center right experts would honor that principle of “a diversity of views."

(Full text here http://fixthedollar.com/2014/12/09/apia-coalition-letter-to-janet-yellen-endorsing-meeting-request/.)

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