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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. I slogged through most of it. I didn’t quite get that.

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Consultant Ninja: Why the US Housing Market is still royally screwed.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Why the US Housing Market is still royally screwed. As a potential homeowner, Ive been trying to assess which way the housing market is going.

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Consultant Ninja: Consulting Verbatims: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Consulting Verbatims. From: Client Sent: Monday, 11:32 PM To: Consultant Ninja Subject: RE: Market Data Sources Ninja- Please make this high priority.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Finally, two counter-cyclical markets. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. March 31, 2009 at 9:52 PM.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Uniteds fuel hedging strategy has all the marks of some smooth-talking consultants or bankers. billion in 2008.

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Are Your Values Worth the Paper They’re Printed On?

Markovitz Consulting

When the firm lost 30% of its orders overnight in 2008, the CEO asked everyone to take a month off without pay, rather than laying off one-third of the workforce. The company also suspended 401(k) contributions during the recession—but then gave back those contributions that they missed in 2009 and 2010 when the economy recovered.

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