Andolfatto (@dandolfa) November 14, 2014

... a person who is a "Vice President" at the St. Louis Fed, the same Bank whose president is singlehandedly responsible for the last 10% upswing in these here rigged "markets"...

... who counts among his "academic credentials" the following:

Ph.D. Economics

University of Western Ontario

1994 M.A. Economics

Simon Fraser University

1987 B.B.A. Commerce

Simon Fraser University

1985

... and who is the self-professed author of the following "research" papers:

Articles Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals "Optimal Disclosure Policy and Undue Diligence"

with Aleksander Berentsen and Christopher J. Waller

Journal of Economic Theory, January 2014, 149, pp. 128-152. "Information Disclosure and Exchange Media"

with Fernando M. Martin

Review of Economic Dynamics, July 2013, 16(3), pp. 527-539. "Incentive-Feasible Deflation"

Journal of Monetary Economics, May 2013, 60(4), pp. 383-390. "A Note on the Societal Benefits of Illiquid Bonds"

Canadian Journal of Economics,February 2011, pp. 133-47. "Essential Interest-Bearing Money"

Journal of Economic Theory, July 2010, 145(4), pp. 1319-602. "Money, Intermediation, and Banking"

with Ed Nosal

Journal of Monetary Economics, April 2009, 56(3), pp. 289-94. "Rational Truth-Avoidance and Self-Esteem"

with Steeve Mongrain and Gordon Myers

Canadian Journal of Economics, February 2009, 42(1) pp. 141-54. "Endogenous Debt Constraints in a Life-Cycle Model with an Application to Social Security"

with Martin Gervais

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, December 2008, 32(12), pp. 3745-59. "Bank Incentives, Contract Design, and Bank-Runs"

with Ed Nosal

Journal of Economic Theory, September 2008, 142(1), pp. 28-47. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Publications "Liquidity Shocks, Real Interest Rates, and Global Imbalances"

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2012, 94(3), pp. 187-195. "Fiscal Multipliers in War and in Peace"

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2010,