Nader's advice to Fed Chair Janet Yellen: talk to your husband, he probably knows better.

[Yavin4]

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"Chairwoman Yellen, I think you should sit down with your Nobel Prize winning husband, economist George Akerlof, who is known to be consumer-sensitive," Nader, 81, wrote in an open letter published in the Huffington Post.

Nader also recommended that Yellen -- the Fed's first female Chair -- speak to one of her former male colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, to get a better grasp on her job.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/24/news/economy/janet-yellen-letter-ralph-nader/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom

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This is why you shouldn't worship anyone.

[randys1]

1. Jesus Ralph...

[librechik]

2. yeah, cuz he well knows only men are allowed, so...

maybe she can get a permission slip.

There ought to be more than one woman, so they can gang up on the guys. That's how change works. A lone female is ignorable. A bunch of them are trouble.

Sigh. Maybe next century...

[GummyBearz]

3. The federal reserve is there to make sure commercial banks make money

Male or female, doesn't matter. Just look at the interest rates savers are getting on their bank accounts. She could ask a dolphin what to do and it would probably help the average person out more than what Goldman Sachs lobbies the federal reserve to do.

[Yavin4]

4. Doesn't excuse Ralph's outrageously sexist comments n/t

[Democat]

5. Ralph Nader gave us Bush

Never forget.

[MADem]

6. And there were so many people here who supported that idioturd..... nt

[Schema Thing]

7. So wait - She shouldn't be criticized by a male?

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Or are you saying Ralphie should go out of his way to seek out only female experts to criticize a female?

How is that feminism?

That's faux feminism - special pleading and sexism in a shiny box labeled "Feminism!".


Were it Bill Clinton being criticized on "X situation", and someone said "you should talk to your own wife to get the correct perspective", no one would bat an eye - Bill is close to Hillary - Hillary is considered about as much an expert on "X situation" as Bill. Hence the suggestion.

Or hell, criticize it for being an argument-from-authority... but don't call it sexism because it's not.

[mythology]

10. There's a difference between telling a guy to check with his wife

And telling a woman to check with her husband. There isn't the same history where men became property of their wife.

Given that Yellen has published with her husband, I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that she both better better knows her husband's work and is probably more closely aligned than Nader.

Nader said something stupid in an attempt to cling to some last bit of relevancy.

[Schema Thing]

12. Not where expertise is concerned, no, there isn't a difference.

Except to the extent one wants to continue male/female fights.

My example of Bill/Hillary is pretty much a one-for-one analogy, and it holds true.

[joshcryer]

15. +1

He did it on purpose to stir controversy, he knows he'll have useful idiots to defend it.

Never mind the low interest regime is merely Keynesianism in action and the only thing the Fed can do.

[Yavin4]

13. "speak to one of her former male colleagues"

He didn't say former colleagues. He said "former male" colleagues. IOW, from Ralph's perspective, women aren't smart enough on these issues.

[Schema Thing]

14. dafuq?? You do realize that he didn't say that, don't you?

Even as the editorialization that it is, it is a lie in that it pluralizes colleague into "colleagues".

Here is what Ralph said (lord, I can't believe I'm defending effing Ralph Nader!):


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"For heaven's sake, you're a "liberal" from Berkeley! That is supposed to mean something other than to be indentured by the culture and jargon of the Federal Reserve. If you need further nudging on monetary and regulatory policies of the Fed, other than interest rate decisions, why not invite Berkeley Professor Robert Reich, one of your long-time friends and admirers, to lunch on your next trip home?"

[MineralMan]

8. Misogynistic asshole!

Clear as a bell.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Well, That's Damned Inelegant

Perhaps he meant something different than how it sounds, but it sure sounds bad.

[KamaAina]

11. Oooh! You said the N-word!