The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.

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For his part, President Bill Clinton tried to make light of the latest controvery in remarks to some visiting presidential scholars.

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China has communicated its anger over the situation with visiting American scholars.

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I'm regularly amazed, for instance, at the overly-deferential welcome reserved for visiting writers, scholars and polemicists, some of whom are granted a star status here that they could never hope to achieve at home.

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Although construction will continue for another five years, the first Shanghai artists, poets, scholars and musicians have already begun visiting and staying for short residencies.

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Hadi Semati is a public policy scholar visiting from Tehran at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars here in Washington.

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