This from earlier this year but will all the Fed activity worth posting.

@7:47- “first of all, the federal reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take.”

Monday 25 August 2008

by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

The central bankers of the world gathered last weekend for their annual meeting at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This was an opportunity to talk about the major issues confronting the world economy, as well as an opportunity to spend some time in a very beautiful vacation spot.

When they met in Jackson Hole in 2005, the meetings were devoted to an Alan Greenspan retrospective, honoring his 18-year tenure as Federal Reserve Board chairman, which was due to end the following January. A number of papers were presented analyzing his record at the Fed, including one that raised the question of whether Mr. Greenspan was the greatest central banker of all time.
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