#9 - Author credentials and curency of book in post #4

The book from my blog post #4 is Do they walk on water? : Federal Reserve chairmen and the Fed, by Leonard Jay Santow. 

From the Alibris web site (“the premier online marketplace for independent sellers of new and used books, music, and movies”): “Leonard J. Santow is Managing Director of Griggs & Santow Inc., an economic consulting firm in New York, whose clients include government agencies, central banks, investment and commercial banks, corporations, pension funds, insurance companies, government securities dealers, and money managers. He has served as Financial Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and on the boards of several investment committees and organizations.”  (http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Leonard-J-Santow?aid=4410006#)  I'm not entirely confident about the first part about the clients of Griggs and Santow, but the last part about Santow working for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas should be easy to check, so it is probably accurate.  Checking in the WorldCat site, I found that Santow is the author of four books: Social security and the middle-class squeeze: fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs; Do they walk on water? : Federal Reserve chairmen and the Fed; Helping the Federal Reserve work smarter; and The budget deficit: the causes, the costs, the outlook.  It appears that Santow is a well-established and accomplished economist, and he has published this book plus three others, all on the topic of economics.  I conclude that he is a reliable author on issues pertaining to economics and this book on the federal reserve should provide good information on its topic. 

This book was published in 2009.  It is fairly recent and should provide accurate general and historical information about the Federal Reserve, but other information sources would have to be used for more recent developments regarding the Federal Reserve, such as scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.