“Integrity it Priceless.”

Tonight Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve was asked if the Fed considers politics when setting interest rates. He said, they never have and are not going to do it now. His reason was that it is hard enough to figure out what the right thing to do with all the levers they currently use. Politics would just throw in too great a lever.

He summered it up by saying that, “Integrity is Priceless.”

It seems like that should be a given for everyone. How about we go back to teaching our children about integrity. I remember when Carter was little Martha Stewart went to jail for lying about insider trading. It was not for doing the insider trading, but about lying about it.

I told Carter at a tender age that once you lie you are a liar. She understood what happened to Martha Stewart and learned the lesson. Sadly some prominent people don’t think twice bout lying. It’s not right for them and we should push back on turning a blind eye to the lying.

Jerome Powell says it best, “Integrity is priceless.”