Currently three of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are Jewish, including both the Chair and Vice-Chair: Bernanke, Yellen, and Stein.
Six of the last eleven appointments have been Jewish (Bernanke, Kohn, Kroszner, Mishkin, Yellen, and Stein.)
Globally speaking, about 11% of all billionaires are Jewish, almost all of them living in the US or Israel.
"Of the world's 1,426 billionaires ranked by "Forbes", 165 are Jews, who have an aggregate fortune of $812 billion, substantially more than last year. "
Both chairmen of the Federal Reserve since 1987 have been Jewish (Greenspan and Bernanke) and both the people Obama is considering to replace Bernanke are Jewish (Summers and Yellen). So we will likely go 30+ years with only Jewish Federal Reserve chairs.
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Currently three of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are Jewish, including both the Chair and Vice-Chair: Bernanke, Yellen, and Stein.
Six of the last eleven appointments have been Jewish (Bernanke, Kohn, Kroszner, Mishkin, Yellen, and Stein.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Governors
I encourage you to do the math and see what the probability is of 2% of the population getting 54% of the Fed appointments. (it's 0.00000003 )
http://www.vassarstats.net/textbook/ch5apx.html
About 35% of billionaires in the US are Jewish, although Jews are only 2% of the population.
http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-forbes-400-by-ethnic-origins.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/07/forbes-400-by-ethnicity.html
Globally speaking, about 11% of all billionaires are Jewish, almost all of them living in the US or Israel.
"Of the world's 1,426 billionaires ranked by "Forbes", 165 are Jews, who have an aggregate fortune of $812 billion, substantially more than last year. "
http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Forbes-ranking-The-worlds-richest-Jews-310104
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000837031
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/04/forbes-jewish-billionaires.html
Both chairmen of the Federal Reserve since 1987 have been Jewish (Greenspan and Bernanke) and both the people Obama is considering to replace Bernanke are Jewish (Summers and Yellen). So we will likely go 30+ years with only Jewish Federal Reserve chairs.
You are correct. In statistics this is called restriction of range, and it will always lower correlation.
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/A68809.html
Not sure how the director of HR at Google could be unaware of this, but there you go.