On Thursday, the Fed released transcripts of its meetings in 2006,
offering a new window into what was on the minds of some of the nation’s
top economic and financial thinkers just ahead of the financial crisis
and subsequent great recession. The transcripts, which are customarily
released after five years, show that Fed leaders, armed with the best
economic data available, had little idea of what was looming less than
two years off.
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What was on their minds ?
seems pretty obvious...........RAPE PILLAGE AND PLUNDERING OF THE WORLD !
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/business/transcripts-show-an-unfazed-fed-in-2006.html
The officials laughed about the cars that [home] builders were offering as signing bonuses, and about efforts to make empty homes look occupied. They joked about one builder who said that inventory was “rising through the roof.”
But the officials gave little credence to the possibility that the faltering housing market would weigh on the broader economy,