Daily Clips: September 22nd, 2016
UW researcher has some conflict of interests: Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant raised concerns about research surrounding Seattle’s “landmark minimum-wage-law and about public comments by one of the University of Washington professors leading the effort.”
Between two ferns with Hillary Clinton: Very clever.
Yellen decides to keep the interest rates steady:
Yellen pushed back hard on the criticism on Wednesday. “The Federal Reserve is not politically compromised,” she said. “I can’t recall any meeting that I have ever attended where politics has been a matter of discussion. I think the public if they had been watching our meeting on TV today would have felt that we had a rich, deep, serious, intellectual debate about the risks and the forecasts for the economy.”
No revolving door in Clinton administration, says Warren: Wouldn’t that be something?!
“When we talk about personnel, we don’t mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary’s bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it’s time for the next swing through the revolving door,” she said. “We don’t mean Citigroup or Morgan Stanley or Blackrock getting to choose who runs the economy in this country so they can capture our government.”
Tweet of the day:
It's a weird coincidence how open carry laws don't seem to afford any protection to black men who cops say were holding guns.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 22, 2016
