Today’s Fed Minutes

The Fed minutes report never tells us who said what. Instead, we’re treated to a stream of indefinite pronouns (“some” members said this, “a few” said that)

Here’s the unaudited count of appearances in today’s Fed minutes:

Some – 11*
Most – 10
A few – 8
Several – 6**
Many – 6
A number of – 5
One – 5
A couple of – 4
Almost all – 2
All – 1
A majority of – 1

*Includes one “some other”
** Includes one “several others”

Posted by on January 8th, 2014 at 2:23 pm


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