William Poole, Ph.D.

Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute

William Poole is Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute and Senior Advisor to Merk Investments. Poole retired as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in March 2008. In that position, which he held from March 1998, he served on the Federal Reserve’s main monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee. During his ten years at the St. Louis Fed, he presented over 150 speeches on a wide variety of economic and finance topics. Working with his Research Director, Robert Rasche, he did pioneering research on the forecasting accuracy of the federal funds futures market. Before ... Read More