“Federal Reserve in Capitol Hill crosshairs”

The Business Times has a story on the Federal Reserve’s desire to avoid Congressman Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill:

In short, many on Capitol Hill want to rip the veil of secrecy off the Fed and make its operations more transparent and open to full examination by Congress.

In that context, two unlikely political allies, Republican Congressman Ron Paul, the leading libertarian figure on Capitol Hill, and former presidential candidate, and independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is the only US lawmaker who is proud to describe himself as a socialist, have been promoting ‘audit the Fed’ legislation in Congress.

Read the rest here.