Weird? Fed thinks about issuing its own debt

I'm not sure why the Fed may want to issue government bonds, a role reserved now for the Treasury Dept. This WSJ article hints the Fed and Treasury may have policy differences. And the Fed is limited to creating cash reserves, which may cause inflation. And financing bailouts by printing money may bugger up its intermediary banks, and make controlling rates more difficult.

Ben Edwards has cancer, report says

The St. Louis Business Journal reports that Ben Edwards has terminal cancer.

In a Q&A, Edwards says he was diagnosed a year ago.

The story gives a nice rundown of Edwards' career, and discloses that Ben never sold his AGE stock that converted into Wachovia, causing big losses.

As for his sucessor CEO Bob Bagby, Ben says Bagby "wasn’t the person for the job."