Judy Shelton

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Judy Shelton (2018)

Judy Shelton (* 1954 ) is an American economist .

Career

Shelton first studied at Portland State University , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in education . She holds an MBA and a PhD in business administration from the University of Utah . Her first professional position was from 1985 to 1995 at the Hoover Institution , a think tank affiliated with Stanford University in California . She later served as Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy , Washington, DC and then Chairman of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London .

Shelton was involved in several presidential campaigns in the United States. Among others at that of Bob Dole , 1996 and Ben Carson , 2016. After Carson's assignment, she switched to Donald Trump's team . After his election as president, Trump appointed her as his adviser on economic policy issues. In 2019 she nominated Donald Trump as a candidate for one of the two 2019 vacant seats as governor of the Fed .

Viewpoints

Shelton repeatedly criticized the Fed's low interest rate policy during President Barack Obama's administration . Within the Atlas Network think tank , Shelton was director of the “Sound Money Project”. The Sound Money Project published articles on alternative forms of money economy , a partial or complete return to the gold standard and general reform proposals for the FED. In this context, she proposed holding a new Bretton Wood meeting at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate .

Publications (excerpt)

  • Ways to "Good Money", Judy Shelton and Alejandro Chafuen, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mara Bernath: Judy Shelton: Trump loyalist should become a central banker. In: Finance and Economy. July 5, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ DR. Judy Shelton (Chairman). In: National Endowment for Democracy. August 10, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2019 (eng).
  3. ↑ Chris Matthews: This Trump Economic Advisor Wants America to Go Back to the Gold Standard. In: Fortune. August 18, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Judy Shelton, Alejandro Chafuen: Roads to Sound Money. In: Atlas Network. 2012, accessed on August 10, 2019 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Shelton, Judy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954