Challenging idols won't win fans: Fed's Hoenig

Regulatory reform is likely to prove a desperately unpopular task for the Federal Reserve, Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Kansas City Fed, noted.

Borrowing from a speech by Paul Warburg, a member of the Fed's first-ever board, Hoenig said that "in a country whose idol is prosperity, any attempt to tamper with conditions in which easy profits are made and people are happy, is strongly resented."

"Doing what must be done to facilitate financial stability has always been the independent

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