The Fed makes decisions for technical reasons, not political ones. That's a feature, not a bug.
I personally do not want a boom every 2 years just before the election, as congressmembers try desperately to make the economy look good, followed by a bust just after the election, as their medium-to-long-term-bad-ideas get shown to be bad.
I personally do not want a boom every 2 years just before the election, as congressmembers try desperately to make the economy look good, followed by a bust just after the election, as their medium-to-long-term-bad-ideas get shown to be bad.