Nathan Tankus

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Odd Lots · Lev Menand and Nathan Tankus on Why Fed Independence Is Now Hanging by a Thread · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And if anything, I would say that that was a weakness, that people were especially motivated in that case and less motivated by, say, science having an independent framework.

I wrote about this in a piece that only published last year, but I wrote for Lev in another publication in 2021 where –

If you look at 2020 or 2021, it's not at all clear that the independence of the Federal Reserve was more important than the independence of the CDC.

If we're talking about credible commitments, about forward guidance, those ideas would have been much more helpful and much more important at the CDC than at the Federal Reserve at that time.

And

Furthermore, as our experience at that time highlighted, the ability of, say, Fauci or whoever to speak fully independently of the president in articulating what the latest best science of, I mean, we're talking in a very literal sense hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of lives is the difference.

Well, what's the defense?

Unitary executive theory, voice, mind, everything.

So, yeah, the Constitution says that.

We can't quite get around that.

But all they're saying is the appointment is is the appointment.

So there is a a entry, you know, of course, proper legislative supervision.

And what they are supervising is the entry.

It would be absurd to say that like that once he's they've entered the executive branch and have become.

employees of the president that the president can't remove them and fire them.

There is no removal.

There is no.

Well, there is removal protection, but there is no principle where like there's a formal process for the Senate to look over oversight of firing, firing a cabinet head.

So this is the only process we have.

And, you know, the founders in their infinite wisdom decided that this was the proper role of the Senate in this process.

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