Federal Reserve Candidate: “Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy. I’m not even a big believer in democracy.”

Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore, who was a favourite earlier this year for Trump’s appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, put the matter simply.

“Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy,” he said in an interview. “I’m not even a big believer in democracy.”

source: Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’

 

Quinn Slobodian, associate professor of history at Wellesley College

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