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  • PABLO PARDO

    Correspondent

    Washington

Friday, 30 October 2020 - 22:23

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If anyone knows what politics is like in the United States, it's

Peter Diamond

.

In April 2010, then-President Barack Obama nominated him to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board.

The Republican opposition, which controlled the Senate and had to ratify him in office, not only refused to endorse the appointment, but also refused to even consider it.

In October of that year, the Central Bank of Sweden

awarded

this economist, born in 1940, the

Nobel Prize in Economics.

And l

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