That Fed nomination is a really big deal – and a really bad one, telling you a lot about Trump and his party https://t.co/YWiRrxIPjx

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 25, 2019

This is the first genuinely bad Trump pick for the Fed. But make no mistake: It's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad pick. He hasn't gotten a thing right in twenty years, (check the record), and the Senate should not confirm him. https://t.co/q701SriSZz

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) March 22, 2019

Scoop on how this went down: At lunch last week, Kudlow showed Trump Stephen Moore’s op-ed in WSJ.

Trump said: Why didn’t we make him Fed chair.

Kudlow said you could name him to one of open seats.

Trump said call him.

Later Trump called Moore, too.https://t.co/NW7IuewBs5 https://t.co/1Vr20OEiTm

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 22, 2019

“Former Wall Street Journal editorial page colleagues complained that he was not always careful with economic facts in his writing during the time he worked at the newspaper.” @vtg2 and me on @StephenMoore for the Fed. https://t.co/82qo4AsDUI

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) March 22, 2019

I just remembered that I was on CNN with Stephen Moore when he said that Doug Jones' support of abortion was morally equivalent to the allegations against Roy Moore. https://t.co/QPZ00PHJvv

— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 27, 2019

Here it is… IRS went after Stephen Moore for $75,328.80 in back taxes on January 29, 2018. pic.twitter.com/GWIpMQdRtC

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) March 27, 2019

"'I will be independent,' [Moore] told POLITICO in a phone interview Tuesday night, though he admitted, 'I’m a big fan of Donald Trump’s.'" https://t.co/xdhGAG4mYq

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 27, 2019

Amazing. Moore isn't just a hack, with terrible judgment. He's a hack who has repeatedly shown himself unable even to get basic facts right 1/ https://t.co/OxCzhbTA0J

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 22, 2019

Of note: Moore has only a master's degree in economics. The GOP in 2011 blocked an Obama nominee who had earned a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. https://t.co/urgy52IMVL

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 22, 2019

"I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination."

-MIT economist Peter Diamond, June 2011 https://t.co/XhJxaeHXd2

— Brendan Duke (@Brendan_Duke) March 22, 2019

And one at mar a Lago. https://t.co/OW7ANvPFeX https://t.co/h5PcNVElhX

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 22, 2019

Trump just named Stephen Moore—a terrible pick—for the Fed. Here’s Moore getting destroyed in real-time on basic facts by @crampell. pic.twitter.com/7HDrU0jNXi

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 22, 2019

Trump reportedly wants to put Stephen Moore on the Fed, which Moore says should loosen monetary policy because the Fed policy is causing "deflation." We do NOT actually have deflation right now.

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 22, 2019

I see @BenSasse is continuing his downward intellectual descent. https://t.co/mn5KJ2ggTj

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 25, 2019

Would Sasse choose a surgeon or a pilot based on who angers the "establishment" the most? Sometimes actual expertise is important. https://t.co/7l9NWX4AH1

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 25, 2019

Steve Moore: “I’m kind of new to this game, frankly, so I’m going to be on a steep learning curve myself about how the Fed operates, how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions.” https://t.co/0fZJlPbhkU via @bpolitics

— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) March 25, 2019

My cat would be a better pick 1/ https://t.co/y0HWBPhxbq

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 22, 2019

Of course Donald Trump’s nominee to the Fed is catastrophically hackish.https://t.co/vSvMya49Uy pic.twitter.com/vQvSbvRWol

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) March 22, 2019

From a Bush 43 appointee: https://t.co/DSOJDnVsQq

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 24, 2019

Here's no less than Stephen Moore arguing for "Atlas Shrugged" as the blueprint out of the financial crisis in January 2009. His nomination to the Fed must be withdrawn.

https://t.co/M0NLCMt3Gd via @WSJ

— Invictus (@TBPInvictus) March 23, 2019

this emphatic thumbs down from Greg Mankiw – a leading Republican economist – poses a significant problem for Steve Moore’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board https://t.co/DUOszwYV5F

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 23, 2019