Claim Chowder is Served: Nein!-Nein!-Nein!, Continued! Black Walnut’s (his nickname, not mine!) march to the Fed based on a career of determining the optimum price of a 3-topping pizza, seems to have run into a few bumps in the home delivery: My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.