During the contentious nomination process for Sarah Bloom Raskin, who subsequently withdrew her candidacy to serve at the Federal Reserve, the politicization of the U.S. central bank has come into question again. Emre Kuvvet, an associate professor of finance at Nova Southeastern University, published a report on The Wall Street Journal that assessed party affiliation of economists at the central bank. For economists at the Fed Bank of Cleveland, the Democrat-to-Republican ratio was 3:1. At the San Francisco Fed Bank, the ratio was 12:1. He also learned that the Democrat-to-Republican ratio for senior economists and those in leadership positions was 22.25:1. But there is a substantial gap between older and younger Fed economists and their political leanings. For Fed economists between 50 and 60 years old, the ratio is 6.5:1. However, for those 40 or younger, the party affiliation ratio is 20.3:1. Kuvvet purported that the lack of intellectual diversity …