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The realities of organizing a community tech conference: an ill-advised rant
Warning: this post is an ill-advised, badly timed rant. There are swear words. You have been warned. Also, no one person instigated any of this rant. It's been building in me for three years. <3 Let me tell you about the realities of organizing a tech conference: it sucks. (more…)
Frameworks for Feedback at DevOpsDays Chicago 2015 [Updated: with video!]
I gave a talk on "Frameworks for Feedback" at DevOpsDays Chicago. The organizers asked me to add in a little about diversity and microaggressions, so it's pretty jam-packed, but seemed to be well received. Also, the DevOps community is awesome. (more…)
Interview tip: Know who you are interviewing
Aside from the fact that coding and code interviews are not even close to the meritocracy that many suggest, going blind into an interview and just testing coding skills is not a solution. By blind I mean not knowing the background and experience of the applicant. Asking is not enough - read their resume, check their Github and LinkedIn and Twitter. Get some context for their skills and experience. (more…)
Getting more women (and people) into Open Source
I gave this talk at the Github Patchwork event at Dev Bootcamp NYC on 9/18/14. I spoke about the work we've done with Write/Speak/Code on getting more women into open source. The main lesson: technical skill isn't the barrier; it's the belief that they have nothing to contribute that stops people from giving back to the tech community. (more…)
Rspec error: undefined method `get'
You may have upgraded Rspec recently. Or perhaps a new team member joined, ran bundle and couldn't run any controller tests. (more…)


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Hello friends!
My CloneDeploy system works great with bare metal servers and VMware. I've added Nutanix to our internal IT systems and I figured it would be awesome to be able to clone a VMware VM and deploy onto Nutanix as VM. Both being Linux based, I thought it would be the same, but apparently not.
I get the error attached. Nutanix + CloneDeploy "Could not start download: Operation not supported. No more network devices."
Here is the link it's sending me to. http://ipxe.org/err/3c0920
net0 does get an IP of 192.168.1.109 and sees the filename, but can not download.
Is there a setting I can change in Admin settings? To get VMware to boot, I have to change Kernel to 4.13.2 and generate new token (was blank before).

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RELIEVED Sandal thankfully have a second chance at securing promotion to National Two North today.
The Wakefield side cruelly missed out on automatic promotion last week after losing their top-of-the-table clash with Sale.
They surrendered a four-try lead to fall 31-22 and see their opponents both win the National Three North title and go up at their expense.
Sandal, however, now host Hinckley from National Three Midlands in a play-off to get the all-important second berth.
Team manager Jim Kilfoyle, who has vast experience having worked with Rotherham Titans in their halcyon days, knows their future is in their own hands one last time.
"Last week was gut-wrenching, but even the people from Sale were saying we should have won," he said.
"The referee started blowing constantly in the last 20 minutes and we had three players yellow-carded. But we get another chance now and it would end a couple of years of frustration if we could go up.
"Hinckley are a more forwards-orientated team so we can't let them impose their style on us and we have to play our own game.
"We have the same squad as at Sale and I'd be disappointed if we didn't win, even more so than last week as we played as well as we could then."
Kilfoyle admits, if they win, the step up will be sizeable.
But he added: "Speaking to teams already up there, they think we'd be mid-table.
"We'd be playing against sides that are semi-pro while we still are very much amateur.
"But we have a good squad and would look forward to the challenge of facing them all.
"The hard part, though, is actually getting up and that's what we must achieve by producing our best versus Hinckley."


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My favorite parts of summer?
- outings with family
- my garden
- my garden pond
- mists (morning mists this morning from the heavy storm we received last night)
- rainbows (saw one last night--a double one in fact. Gorgeous, with both ends touching the ground.)
- flowers, flowers, and more flowers.
- outdoor activities--walking, camping, bird watching, boating and fishing
- fireworks!
- later hours to write (Big smile!)
- campfires
- campfire foods: melty, gooey marshmallows, smoke-filled hamburgers, fresh tomatoes, corn, and potatoes, my sil's baked beans, hotdogs-cooked just right with my homemade sauce! (yum!)
- the refreshing atmosphere after a severe storm
- more time to write (ooops, did I already mention that?)
- sitting on my deck and watching the trees around me move in the breeze
- reading a book with hubby on my deck
- writing down some good ideas for my next novel on my deck (tongue in cheek--got in another reference to writing!)
- enjoying a neighborhood historical outdoor play with friends and family
- the smells--rain, the perfume of a variety of flowers, smoke from the campfires, cut hay
- dandelions (I love those small invasive things!)
- city lights on a summer night
- clover and wild flowers
- my rocks
- mystery hunts
- ocean surf
- caves
- hot air ballooning
- rock-strewn creeks
- wading in shallow streams
- grape arbors
- swings (love to curl up in them and sleep!)
- big open porches
- no cold weather!
- writing in the summer time! (smile)
Talking about picnics . . . why not plan a romantic one for your honey?
- Choose a basket with some sophistication (no ratty ones, please!) Line it with a softly colored napkin. Choose goblets or nice glasses just for the two of you.
- Find a great spot. Use your imagination. For example: A) Your own backyard. String lights in the trees. Create a canopy out of fabric, bring some pillows. Or B) Use a theme--Indian with saris, bright colors and curried dishes; Or Mexican, Italian, Chinese. C) A private balcony, if you live in an urban area. D) Rainy days or winter timed, lay a blanket out on your living room floor, or a covered porch. Arrange plants and candles. For any of these ideas, little flourishes of romance will add the finishing touch: flowers and music!
- Plan a delicious meal--easy to transport and clean up after. Elegance is preferred--A French touch: cheese and fruit, fresh baked baguettes with grapes. Or a Mediterranean feast with tomato and basil bruschetta, tortellini salad and calamata olive spread with crackers or pita. Out of time? Drop by the store and pick up French bread, cheese, a rotisserie chicken and some favorite drinks. Or order from your favorite restaurant.
- Surprise! The most romantic element of a picnic is often surprise. Show up at your husband's work at the end of the day with your picnic basket ready to go. Come home with a single rose and plans for the picnic ready. Or hide the ready-to-go basket & surprise him/her by "finding" it. Leave/send an invitation to her for the special time.
A fiery sunset, tiny pansies by the wayside, the sound of raindrops tapping on the roof. What an extraordinary delight to share simple wonders with someone you love!


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Using a
CompoundFile instance we can create a
Stream instance for any stream object in the file as long as we know what it is called.
If we continue to assume that whatever this particular compound file does is being done by macros, then we need to know where they are stored in a 'word' document.
To find this out we need to consult a second specification pithily entitled
[MS-WORD]: Word (.doc) Binary File Format
According to section 2.1.9 Macros Storage
The Macros storage is an optional storage that contains the macros for the file. If present, it MUST be a Project Root Storage as defined in [MS-OVBA] section 2.2.1.
Curiously every other section which describes storage explicitly specifies the name, for example.
The Custom XML Data storage is an optional storage whose name MUST be "MsoDataStore".
Section 2.1.9 is the only one that does not so we will have to assume for the moment that its name is going to be
or something of that ilk.
Moving on to specification number three
[MS-OVBA]: Office VBA File Format Structure
as referenced from section 2.1.9 quoted above, section 2.2.1 Project Root Storage starts
A single root storage. MUST contain VBA Storage (section 2.2.2) and PROJECT Stream (section 2.2.7).
Going further down the rabbit hole we find section 2.2.2 VBA Storage
A storage that specifies VBA project and module information. MUST have the name "VBA" (case- insensitive). MUST contain _VBA_PROJECT Stream (section 126.96.36.199) and dir Stream (section 188.8.131.52). MUST contain a Module Stream (section 2.2.5) for each module in the VBA project.
Its not obvious from that where the actual code is but a quick look at section 2.2.5 tells us.
A stream (1) that specifies the source code of modules in the VBA project. The name of this stream is specified by MODULESTREAMNAME (section 18.104.22.168.3.2.3). MUST contain data as specified by Module Stream (section 184.108.40.206).
So thats where the source code is but the name of the stream is elsewhere it appears.
In fact the name is in a MODULESTREAMNAME record which is in a MODULE record which is in PROJECTMODULES record which is in the "dir" stream.
In the face of all that its tempting to just guess which stream it must be. There can't be that many of them can there ?
Assuming we can find it, what's in it ?
A module stream, it turns out, contains a variable length record followed by the compressed source code, so even if we guess which stream it is not going to do us much good.
The length of the first variable length record is defined in a MODULEOFFSET record which is also contained within a MODULE record and so on and so forth.
There is nothing for it we are going to have to get hold of the "dir" stream.
We are looking for a stream named "dir" within a storage object which is definitely named "VBA" or "vba" or "VbA" or something like that, which is within a storage object which might be called "Macros", maybe.
let cff = CompoundFileFactory()
let cf = cff.open(argv[1])
let dirStream = cf?.getStream(storage: ["Macros", "VBA"], name: "dir")
let data = dirStream?.data()
results in a non
nil value for
data so we are nearly there.
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Traditional Italian Sauce
1/2 cup pIus 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, peeled and halved
1/4 pound piece spiced pancetta
10 cloves garlic (5 pressed, 2 finely chopped, 3 cracked)
Course salt and freshly ground
3 thirty-five-ounce cans plum tomatoes, pureed in a blender
1 twenty-eight-ounce can tomato purée
6 large fresh basil leaves
2 medium lean beef cutlets (about 9 ounces each)
1 tablespoon fresh fiat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
2 teaspoons freshly grated Pecorino Romano cheese, plus
more for garnish
4 to 5 links sweet pork sausage with fennel (about 3/4 pound)
4 pork spare ribs (about 3/4 pound)
1/2 cup white wine
Meatballs (recipe follows)
1 pound pasta, such as ziti, penne, or pennoni
1. In a large saucepan, heat 1/4 cup oil over medium heat. Add onion, pancetta,
pressed garlic, and salt; saute 2 minutes. Stir in pureed tomatoes, tomato
purée, and basil. Bring to a simmer, and cook for 45 minutes. Remove and discard
onion halves.
2. Place beef cutlets on work surface. Sprinkle each piece with 2 teaspoons
olive oil, I clove finely chopped garlic, 1 teaspoon parsley, and 1 teaspoon
cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Roll beef, and tie with kitchen twine.
3. Heat remaining 1/4 cup oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add
cracked garlic, and cook for 2 minutes. Place rolled beef, sausage, and spare
ribs in skillet and cook until golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Add wine, and cook
for 2 minutes. Remove browned meat from pan, and add to sauce along with
4. Add 2 cups water, and return to a simmer. Cook, stirring frequently, over
medium heat for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
5. Just before sauce is finished bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
Add pasta, and cook until al dente, following package instructions. Drain, and
transfer to a large serving platter. Stir sauce to combine, and ladle sauce over
pasta. Serve meats on a separate platter. Sprinkle cheese over pasta and meats.
Makes 20
1 1/2 pounds ground top sirloin
3/4 pound ground pork
3/4 pound ground veal
2 cloves garlic, pressed
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano cheese
2 tablespoons finely chopped fiat-leaf parsley
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 slice Italian bread, soaked in water
3/4 cup unseasoned dry bread crumbs
1/2 cup light olive oil
1. Line a baking sheet with paper towels; set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine top sirloin, pork, veal, extra-virgin olive oil,
garlic, salt, and pepper. Add cheese, parsley, and eggs. Squeeze water from
bread. Tear Into small pieces, and add to meat mixture. Add 3/4 cup bread
crumbs; stir to combine.
3. With damp hands, form 1/4 cup mixture into a ball. Repeat with remaining
4. Heat light olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When
oil is very hot, add meatballs in one layer.Cook until golden brown all over,
about 2 minutes per side.Transfer to prepared baking sheet to drain.
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Dear Final Leg Team Members;
The excitement is building!!!! We are now only 51 days away from the start of the Final Leg and our important mission to build excitement for the 2015 Los Angeles World Games and awareness for Special Olympics throughout the great state of California and around the world!
I hope that your programs have taken advantage of the boilerplate media release that we sent to you several weeks ago to begin building excitement and creating awareness in your own communities!
Yesterday, the Flame of Hope arrived in the United States after being lit on the sacred site of the Pnyx in Athens, Greece on May 14th. The Flame is now being entrusted to law enforcement officers who will be Route Leaders on the three routes of the historic Unified Relay Across America, traversing thousands of miles across the United States touching all 50 states and spreading awareness for Special Olympics in a manner never done before.
On July 10th, Team Leaders from the Final Leg will receive the Flame of Hope from the URAA in a ceremony in Los Angeles and the Final Leg Team will then be entrusted with maintaining the integrity of the Flame though our 14 day Final Leg event starting in Sacramento on July 13th and safely delivering it to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2015 Los Angeles World Games on July 25th.
Please take a minute to look at this great media piece from TV station KABC that aired yesterday…..this is GREAT!!!!
I look forward to seeing everyone soon!
All the best;
Team Captain
2015 Los Angeles Final Leg


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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has deployed over 20 Corruption Risk Assessors (CRA) in Lagos, Onne, Calabar, Warri ports to curb graft.
The officers, sources said, would be at the ports till the end of June to avoid revenue loss by the government.
The Commission, it was learnt, is working in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to reduce corruption in the seaports.
Speaking with The Nation after a meeting organised by ICPC in Lagos, Alhaji Ozi Salami, who represented the ICPC Chairman, Mr Ekpo Nta, said maritime was one of the highest revenue generating sectors in the country, adding that it must be guarded to avoid losses and ensure efficient running of the port.
The meeting was attended by the officials of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Technical Unit on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reforms (TUGAR) and international partners.
CRA, he said, is a corruption prevention tool, which works with an organisation's management to identify areas prone to corruption, proffer recommendations, and develop integrity plans that would strengthen accountability and transparency.
"We are not here to apportion blame, but to carry out a systems study. Since it is much better and wiser to prevent the occurrence of corruption than to expend huge resources in investigations and prosecution after the damage had been done, the Commission places much stock on the CRA process," he said.
Leader of the UNDP team Prof. Sam Egwu said the corruption risk assessment process being driven primarily by ICPC, TUGAR and BPP, began in 2011 with the development of a corruption risk assessment methodology.
The methodology, he said, led to the development of a comprehensive training module that has been used to train over 60 CRAs drawn from the ministries, departments and agencies at both federal and state levels; civil society groups and the anti-corruption agencies.
Egwu said it was from the pool of trained assessors that the 20-man team was constituted to work with experts on this pilot scheme.


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
DCCC targets Duffy, Ribble, Ryan
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today it is targeting GOP U.S. Reps. Sean Duffy, Reid Ribble and Paul Ryan for supporting House, accusing them of supporting cuts to education to support subsidies for oil companies.
The efforts includes robocalls, Web ads and e-mails, the Dem group said.
Here's the text of a call targeting Duffy:
Everyone knows we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit in Washington. And we can do that by reforming government, cutting wasteful spending, and getting rid of taxpayer subsidies for the Big Oil companies making record profits.
But instead, Representative Sean Duffy voted for a partisan plan to raid $694 million from public education.
Yep, Sean Duffy voted to cut 10,000 teachers from the classroom and over 200,000 kids from early childhood education to pay for subsidies to Big Oil. His priorities don't make any sense.
That means nearly 2,500 schools could lose their funding.
Call Sean Duffy to tell him to cut taxpayer subsidies to Big Oil, not teachers out of the classroom.


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ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present ARMCHAIR TABLEAUX a solo exhibition by New York-based painter BRADLEY WOOD. This will also be the first exhibition in Angell Gallery's new location at 1444 Dupont St., Unit 15. The show runs September 11 to October 10, 2015, with an opening reception on Friday, September 11, 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
Bradley Wood's star is on the rise. Selected in 2014 by Saatchi Art Chief Curator, Rebecca Wilson, for the prestigious Artists to Invest In series, Wood is turning heads with his luscious oil paintings of opulent interiors and their imagined fabulous occupants.
While inspired by the visceral, expressionistic painting style of early modernist Chaim Soutine and the intimate domestic interiors of Post-impressionists Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, Wood's update of the "conversation piece" (traditionally an informal group portrait set in a domestic space), has a postmodern canniness.
Mining the history of visual culture, Wood draws ideas from such diverse sources as French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin, vintage European porn, fashion magazines, film sets, and memories of bits of clothing or corners of interiors.
This motley crew of ingredients is mashed and processed through Wood's unique vision and technical virtuosity. Using his fingers as well as a brush, Wood revels in what he describes as the "viscosity and luscious butteriness of oil paint." Furniture, fixtures and figures appear as if reflected in a funhouse mirror, as undulating swirls of paint in rich baroque hues assemble into deliciously decadent scenes of lanky fashionistas lounging in luxury. Rendered in a delirious raking perspective, these intriguing interiors spill towards us, as their decadent inhabitants invite us to take a bite of their exquisite forbidden fruit.
Bradley Wood has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, studied art and design at the Art Center in Montreux, Switzerland, and new media and installation at CalArts in Valencia, California. He has had solo exhibitions at Saatchi Art at Parasol Projects in New York City and at Parts Gallery in Toronto, and has been in numerous juried group shows in U.S., as well as in the Kim Dorland curated I ♥ Paint at Angell Gallery in Toronto. Wood's paintings hang in the Raines Law Room in Manhattan, and he recently completed a 17 painting installation for the Peacock at the William Hotel, also in NYC.


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Above is a better pic of me working away in our dining room/ office before I met with a new client last weekend. Now, onto the "how-to"! All I have yet to do is buy a pretty cloth covered extension cord so it looks nice and I can plug it in! Just a heads up, this is the kind of project where some wood working skills are probably necessary! I usually try to keep it easy so that anyone can do it, but that just wasn't going to happen this time around!
- Wood, I used oak, but I would actually suggest pine, because finishing all the edges on the oak was a pain in the patoot because it's such a hard wood.
- Round string lights, I got mine from Target, it's a string of 25 lights, so I had to make sure that 25 lights would make sense on the word I chose, so keep that in mind!
- Hanging hardware
- Jig saw
- Router
- Drill
- File
- Sandpaper
- Staple Gun
- Print out your word to scale and lay it out on the wood, trace with pencil.
- Rough cut with a jig saw or band saw. I rough cut it first, then went back in to get closer
- Use a rough file to clean up the edges
- Using a router, round top edges
- Go back in with a finer file and sand paper to finish out all the edges, the router usually can't get in the tight corners.
- Drill holes for the lights. On the lights that I bought, there was a little clip on each one, I broke that off so that they would be round and fit into the holes I drilled perfectly.
- Take out bulbs, insert all the light sockets into the holes.
- Attach hanging hardware, measure up from the bottom so that it hangs level, I put mine on the H and L
- Staple down all the wires so that they are hidden when you hang the sign
- Screw in all the light bulbs
- Hang it up and enjoy!


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The Trouble with Jobs
After a difficult first quarter, the Dow Jones continues to stagger upward – mollified regularly by soothing reports from the Federal Reserve that the QE taper will be gentle.
What staggers but does not grow apace are employment numbers. William Galston wrote in the Wall Street Journal: "Today, 75 months after the Great Recession begain, 57 months after it ended ,and 32 months after real gross domestic product surpassed its previous high, fewer Americans have jobs than in December 2007.
Before the recession, the average duration of unemployment was about 16 weeks. It then surged to more than 40 weeks in 2011 and still stands at 37 weeks today. The long-term unemployed (27 weeks or more) constitute 37% of the total, and research by Princeton's Alan Krueger, Judd Cramer and David Cho suggests that the odds of these Americans ever regaining permanent full-time jobs are dismal.
During the recession, 60% of job losses occurred in middle-wage occupations paying between $13.83 and $21.13 per hour, while 21% of losses involved jobs paying less than $13.83 hourly. During the recovery, however, only 22% of new jobs paid middle wages while fully 58% were at the lower-wage end of the scale. In other words, millions of re-employed workers have experienced downward mobility.
Stanford economist Edward P. Lazear, who was chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush, wrote in a different Wall Street Journal op-ed that "the key statistic for understanding the labor market is the length of the average workweek. Small changes in the average workweek imply large changes in total hours worked. The average workweek in the U.S. has fallen to 34.2 hours in February from 34.5 hours in September 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That decline, coupled with mediocre job creation, implies that the total hours of employment have decreased over the period.
Job creation rose from an initial 113,000 in January (later revised to 129,000) to 175,000 in February. The January number frightened many, while the February number was cheered—even though it was below the prior 12-month average of 189,000.
The labor market's strength and economic activity are better measured by the number of total hours worked than by the number of people employed. An employer who replaces 100 40-hour-per-week workers with 120 20-hour-per-week workers is contracting, not expanding operations. The same is true at the national level.
He went on to note that the falling work week numbers translate into bad news: "The decline of 1/10th of an hour in the average workweek—say, to 34.2 from 34.3, as occurred between January and February—is like losing about 340,000 private nonfarm jobs, which is approximately 80% greater than the average monthly job gain during the past year."
It is perhaps no wonder that consumers have been slow to spend. Those who have jobs don't have sufficient disposable income. Too often, it is American workers who have themselves seemed disposable.
A History of the Federal Reserve
Before the Fed was… J.P. Morgan
In 1907, as one New York bank after another fell victim to a run, the financial community, without any central bank to look to, turned to J. Pierpont Morgan, the preeminent financier of his generation. He had lived through more panics than had any other banker, in 1895 actually bailing out the United States government itself when it was within days of running out of gold and defaulting on debts to Europe. Though J.P. Morgan & Co. was by no means the country's biggest bank, Pierpont Morgan himself had acquired an extraordinary aura of authority that gave him the right, indeed the obligation, to take command during financial crises.
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 52)
Before the Fed: J.P. Morgan: A Modest Fortune and an Outsized Personality
It helped that he [Morgan] was believed to be not simply rich, but extremely rich—like the Rockefellers or the Vanderbilts or Andrew Carnegie—and that with his fierce glowing stare and terrible temper, he intimidated most people, including his own partners. It would turn out that the first of these attributes was exaggerated, for he was not nearly as wealthy as most people thought—when he died in 1913, leaving an estate valued at $80 million, John D. Rockefeller, who himself was worth $1 billion, is said to have shaken his head and said, "And to think that he wasn't even a rich man."
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 53)
Before the Fed: JP Morgan to the Rescue!
Morgan swiftly assembled the very best financiers to assist him with the rescue effort…. The task force had two assignments. The first … was to decide which banks caught in the upheavals were to be bailed out and which left to go under. The second… was to raise the money for the rescue effort. By early November, despite having injected $3 million of his own cash, raised over $8 million from the other banks collectively, secured a commitment from the secretary of the treasury to provide $25 million in deposits, and even managed to extract $10 million from John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Morgan had been unable to check the panic. Depositors continued to withdraw their money and one of the largest trust companies in the country, with over $100 million in deposits, tottered on the edge of collapse.
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 53)
Before the Fed: JP Morgan Summons the Bank Presidents
Finally, on the night of Sunday, November 2, Morgan summoned the presidents of the major New York banks to his new library, at the corner of Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street, an Italian Renaissance-style palace he had built next door to his house to showcase his collection of rare books, manuscripts, and other artwork. Its marble floors, frescoed ceilings, walls lined with tapestries and triple-tiered bookcases of Circasian walnut, crammed full of rare Bibles and illuminated medieval manuscripts, made it an incongruous setting for a meeting of the banking establishment. Once the moneymen had gathered, Morgan had the great ornamental bronze doors to the library locked and refused to let anyone leave until all had collectively agreed to commit a further $25 million to the rescue fund.
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 54)
Before the Fed: the denouement of the 1907 Panic
The 1907 panic exposed how fragile and vulnerable was the country's banking system. Though the panic had finally been contained by decisive action on Morgan's part, it became clear that the United States could not afford to keep relying on one many to guarantee its stability, especially since that man was now seventy years old, semiretired, and focused primarily on amassing an unsurpassed art collection and yachting to more congenial climes with his bevy of middle-aged mistresses.
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 54)
Before the Fed: "The Rich Man's Panic"
The Panic of 1907 was precipitated by several events. First, there was stress on the American money supply due to reconstruction aid to San Francisco after the April 1906 earthquake and to the Bank of England's rising interest rates due to British insurance companies paying out so much to American policyholders. Second, the Hepburn Act, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates, became law in July 1906 and resulted in the depreciation of value of railroad securities. These events led to a slide of almost 18% in the New York Stock market between September 1906 and March 1907, which became known as the "Rich Man's Panic."
Before the Fed: 1907, Stocks Drop by $24%
The economy remained volatile throughout the summer of 1907 with a continual drop in the value of stocks. A series of events contributed to this decline: the failure of the New York City's bond offering, the collapse of the copper market, and the $29 million fine against the Standard Oil Company for antitrust violations. Abroad, there were several runs on the banks in Egypt, Japan, Hamburg, and Chile. By September, the value of stocks had dropped by 24.4%. On October 22, 1907, the Knickerbocker Trust, the second-largest trust company in the United States, was forced to suspend, triggering fear throughout the country and massive cash withdrawals from New York City banks.
Before the Fed: Staunching the Panic of 1907
The Treasury Department intervened with a $25 million deposit in New York banks, and J.P. Morgan organized a pool of $10 million, but these efforts were insufficient to stop the spread of panic. Public confidence needed to be restored as Morgan, the other banks, and even the U.S. Treasury were low on funds. The bankers consequently talked to the press to persuade them that the worst had passed; and, on Monday, October 26, the New York Clearing House issued $100 million in loan certificates to be traded among banks to settle balances while allowing them to retain cash reserves for depositors. These actions led to a return of stability on Wall Street, although specie payments did not fully resume until January 1908 after considerable imports of gold.
Before the Fed: How Morgan Saved NYC
In November [1907], a new set of crises emerged with J.P. Morgan playing a critical role in each of them once again. By purchasing $30 million of bonds, Morgan precluded New York City from declaring bankruptcy; by organizing a $25 million loan to the Trust Company of America and other weak financial institutions, Morgan stopped another potential run on the banks; and by persuading anti-trust busting President Roosevelt to allow U.S. Steel to acquire the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, Morgan was able to prevent another stock market crash. By the end of the year, the Panic of 1907 had ended with Morgan preventing a collapse of the entire financial and economic system of the United States.
— http://www.thegoldstandardnow.org/the-panic-of-1907
Before the Fed: The Recession After the Panic of 1907
In the aftermath of the Panic, there was a lengthy economic contraction from May 1907 to June 1908. According to economists Christine Romer, Nathan S. Balke and Robert Gordon, the stock of money fell 6.8% from the second quarter of 1907 to the first quarter of 1908 with estimates of real GNP falling from 4.3-5.6% from 1907 to 1908. Industrial production dropped further than any previous bank run and 1907 saw the second-highest volume of bankruptcies to that date. Production fell by 11%, imports by 26%, and unemployment rose from under 3% to 8%. The frequency and severity of the 1907 Panic, in addition to the outsized but critical role that Morgan played, created considerable pressure for reform of the financial system. This reform was directed at the banking system rather than the monetary standard, as the gold standard seemed to be in good working order when the crisis began.
Before the Fed: Congress Enacts the National Monetary Commission
The initial response of Congress [to the 1907 panic] was feeble. In 1908 it passed the Aldrich- Vreeland Act, which was designed to make the money supply somewhat more elastic during emergency currency shortages. This was not financial reform but a temporary palliative. Another provision of the law created the National Monetary Commission. This body, composed of nine senators and nine members of the House of Representatives, had the responsibility of making a comprehensive study of the necessary and desirable changes in the money and banking system of the United States.
— p. 16, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
Before the Fed: Background on the National Monetary Commission
The chairman and dominant member of the commission was Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the single most powerful member of the United States Senate and a pillar of the eastern establishment. Aldrich's prominence and power sharply reflected the political controversies of the period. In the 1890s the rural populists of the South and West had challenged the institutions and the power of finance and business, for they felt that the wealth and "special privileges" enjoyed by the few were resulting in the exploitation of the many.
— p. 17, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
Before the Fed: The Bitter Controversy Between Progressives and Conservatives
In the bitter controversies between the progressives, who generally represented the small business owners and the small town and farming population, and the conservatives, who generally represented the most powerful business and banking groups of the large eastern cities, Aldrich was a central figure. The Rhode Island senator was one of the most prominent critics of the progressives, and the progressives, in turn, found Aldrich to be one of the most bitter and stalwart champions of American conservatism.
— p. 17, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Balancing Act of the National Monetary Commission
While most bankers were interested in reforming the financial structure of the nation to make it more efficient and centralized, the progressives were interested in reforming the financial structure by making the banking system less powerful. The National Monetary Commission, under Aldrich's direction, was empowered to undertake a broad study of the nation's financial needs; while the bankers generally applauded the Commission, the progressives viewed it with suspicion, believing that anything Aldrich and the banking community supported would serve their narrow interests rather than the interests of the American people.
— p. 17, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
Before the Fed: The National Monetary Commission's 3 years of Exhaustive Study
Over the following three years the National Monetary Commission undertook a broad and exhaustive study of America's financial needs and resources, conducting investigations and hearings in many American cities and visiting many foreign banking institutions. In January, 1911, Senator Aldrich presented to a group of businessmen in Washington his plan for a reform of the nation's banking and financial institutions.
Before the Fed: The National Monetary Commission Plan Strongly Attacked by Progressives
This plan, which was so clearly prepared under the influence of large bankers, was strongly attacked by the progressives and never appealed to the public. Moreover, the conservative Republican Aldrich presented his plan just after the election of 1910, in which the Democrats captured Congress for the first time in nearly two decades while Republican President William Howard Taft, supported by the party's conservatives, was increasingly besieged by the party's progressive wing. In short, Aldrich presented his plan just after his party had suffered a serious rebuff at the polls, and while a President sympathetic to his views was under growing attack within his own party.
— p. 18, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
What the Aldrich Plan Called For: The National Reserve Association
The Aldrich plan provided for one central institution, to be called the National Reserve Association, with branches all over the country and with the power to is- sue currency, and to rediscount the commercial paper of member banks. Control of the institution would reside in a board of directors, the overwhelming majority of whom would be bankers.
The Aldrich plan received scant public support and aroused strong opposition.
— p. 18, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
William Jennings Bryan Denounces the Aldrich Plan
Bryan's denunciation of the Aldrich plan was shared by many leaders of the progressive movement. Though this opposition signaled an early demise for the kind of currency and financial plan that the bankers wanted, two significant events of 1912 helped to prepare the way for passage of a banking and currency reform program which the bankers in general feared, but which the progressives wanted—a reform designed to limit the power of the banking system and put central banking under public, rather than banker, control.
— pp. 18 -19, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
From Sen. Aldrich's 1909 Address Before the Economic Club of New York on "The Work of the National Monetary Commission" Purpose of the Commission
The immediate occasion which led to the appointment of the [National Monetary] commission was the financial crisis of 1907, whose disastrous results can never be measured, and whose destructive influences were felt throughout the world. The shrinkage in the value of property and securities which then took place, together with losses arising from a paralysis or suspension of business, amounted to thousands of millions of dollars. The country escaped by the narrowest possible margin from a total collapse of all credit and a wholesale destruction of all values.
More From Sen. Aldrich's 1909 Address Before the Economic Club of New York on "The Work of the National Monetary Commission:" The 1907 Panic
To the great majority of the people of the country the blow came without a warning. Most of our banking institutions were in excellent condition, business of every kind was prosperous, labor was fully employed at satisfactory wages, industries of every kind were flourishing. Our people were full of hope and confidence for the future. Suddenly the banks of the country suspended payment, and acknowledged their inability to meet their current obligations on demand.
— http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/nmc/nmc_406_1909.pdf
Even More From Sen. Aldrich's 1909 Address Before the Economic Club of New York on "The Work of the National Monetary Commission": More on the 1907 Panic
The results of this suspension were felt at once; it became impossible in many cases to secure funds or credit to move crops or to carry on ordinary business operations; a complete disruption of domestic exchanges took place; disorganization and financial embarrassment affected seriously every industry; thousands of men were thrown out of employment, and the wages of the employed were reduced. The men engaged in legitimate business and the management of industrial enterprises and the wage-earners throughout the country, who were in no sense responsible for the crisis, were the greatest sufferers.
— http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/nmc/nmc_406_1909.pdf
"The Problem Before the National Monetary Commission" by Assistant Treasury Secretary Andrew, 1910
"About three years ago [in 1907] most of us found ourselves in a country where business was conducted by curious methods. It was a large and prosperous country whose people had long prided themselves upon their achievements in business and upon the superiority of their commercial and financial equipment, yet, singularly enough, in all of the leading cities of the country coin and legally authorized currency circulated at a premium, while the usual means of payment were inconvertible notes issued without any sanction of law by banks, railroads, mining companies and other firms. At the time of which I write, conditions had reached such a state of demoralization that any one who had a payment to make and felt so inclined, issued notes instead of paying cash.
— Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Special Assistant of the National Monetary Commission, delivers "The Problem Before the National Monetary Commission" to the American Academy of Political and Social Science http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/publications/books/bankingprob/1910banking_problems_ch1.pdf and http://ia700400.us.archive.org/4/items/cu31924013951755/cu31924013951755_djvu.txt
"The Problem Before the National Monetary Commission" by Assistant Treasury Secretary Andrew, 1910
These notes in a majority of cases offered no promise of immediate redemption; in the case of some issues they frankly stated that they would only be repaid when the issuers deemed it advisable ; in other cases they stated that due notice of redemption would be given in the daily papers ; occasionally they purported to be payable to Richard Roe or John Smith, or some other fictitious character ; but ordinarily they were launched with the simple statement that they would be received by their issuers and certain other affiliated firms. I made a collection at that time of nearly two hundred different varieties of this peculiar currency and as the occasion will probably never again occur when such a collection of private, illegal, irredeemable paper money can be made in any highly developed country.
— Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Special Assistant of the National Monetary Commission, delivers "The Problem Before the National Monetary Commission" to the American Academy of Political and Social Science http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/publications/books/bankingprob/1910banking_problems_ch1.pdf and http://ia700400.us.archive.org/4/items/cu31924013951755/cu31924013951755_djvu.txt
Legislative Creation of the Federal Reserve: the Pujo Hearings
The first significant event of 1912 was the hearings before the House Banking and Currency Committee, the so-called Pujo hearings, which examined the control of the banking and financial resources of the nation. These hearings, which continued into the early months of 1913, apparently persuaded most of the American people that the ultimate control over America's banking and financial system rested in the hands of a tiny group on Wall Street, the so-called "money trust." In its report, issued in February, 1913, the committee said, "If by a 'money trust' is meant an established and well defined identity and community of interest between a few leaders of finance... which has resulted in a vast and growing concentration of control of money and credit in the hands of a comparatively few men... the condition thus described exists in this country today."
— p. 17, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Election of Wilson to the Presidency
The second event of 1912, crucial to financial reform, was the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Elected on a progressive platform, and with a record as a reformist governor of New Jersey, Wilson pledged himself to financial reform without the creation of a central bank. The new President, however, knew very little about banking, and he had to rely upon others for advice on the shape of his reform proposal. One leading public figure Wilson could not ignore was William Jennings Bryan, and Bryan's views were a strong force in shaping the financial reform program that ultimately became the Federal Reserve System.
—p. 19, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Bryan's Influence
For years Bryan had a reputation as one of the nation's most outstanding and enthralling public speakers, but some people who knew him best believed that the power of his oratory concealed the paucity of his intellect.
One of his cabinet colleagues later sneered: "I discovered that one could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact or a sound statement." As we have already seen, Bryan had strongly opposed the Aldrich plan as just an attempt to give the big bankers even more power; to Bryan, currency reform and curbing the power of the leading financiers were the very same thing. "The currency can be given all the elasticity it needs without increasing the privileges of the banks or the influence of Wall Street," he said at one point.
— (p. 20, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Wilson's Influence
[President] Wilson had echoed Bryan's feelings in the past. A year before his election Wilson asserted, "The greatest monopoly in this country is the money monopoly," and a few months later he declared that the nation would not accept, "any plan which concentrates control in the hands of the banks." It was probably a combination of political realities and his own lack of knowledge about banking and finance that caused Wilson to reflect many of Bryan's views, but after his election to the Presidency, Wilson relied on others for more expert advice on the currency question.
— (p. 20, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: the Legislative Sponsors Meet With Wilson
On December 26, 1912, [Senators] Glass and Willis traveled to Princeton, New Jersey to lay their plan before the President-elect. Wilson was suffering from a cold and he canceled all of his other appointments, but he insisted that Glass and Willis keep their interview as scheduled. With great enthusiasm the two visitors presented to Wilson their plan for reforming the financial structure (yet avoiding the creation of a central bank under banker domination) and remedying the classic problems of immobile reserves and inelastic money supply. The Glass-Willis proposal called for the creation of twenty or more privately controlled regional reserve banks, which would hold a portion of member banks' reserves, perform other central banking functions, and issue currency against commercial assets and gold.
— p. 21, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Wilson's Capstone
[President] Wilson liked much of the Glass-Willis proposal, but he wanted something else added—a central board to control and coordinate the work of the regional reserve banks, what he called the "capstone" to the entire structure. At first Carter Glass was appalled by Wilson's proposal, fearing that it would result in the same centralization that he had so disliked in the Aldrich plan, but he kept his views fairly quiet and soon his fears faded. The "capstone" that Wilson wanted—a Federal Reserve Board —was to be a public agency unlike the banker-dominated central bank of the Aldrich plan. The Glass-Willis proposal of December, 1912, with Wilson's modifications, formed the basic elements of the Federal Reserve Act signed into law in December, 1913.
— p. 21, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Meeting on Jekyl Island
In 1912, [Harry] Davison, now a Morgan partner, frustrated by the lack of progress and fearing that without changes the next panic would be even more catastrophic, set out to convene a meeting of experts to develop a formal plan to establish an American central bank—the third in the nation's history. Only five men were invited. Besides Davison himself, there was Senator Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip, the forty-eight-year-old president of the National City Bank, the largest in the country, Paul Warburg, of the well-known Hamburg banking family, a forty-two-year-old partner at Kuhn Loeb who, although he had only just moved to New York, was probably the greatest expert on central banking in the United States; A. Piatt Andrew, Jr., the thirty-nine-year-old assistant secretary of the treasury, who had been a professor at Harvard and accompanied the original commission on its European study tour, and Benjamin Strong, then thirty-nine-years old.
— Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance (Penguin Books, 2009, p. 54)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Departure for Jekyll Island
Picture a party of the nation's greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car, hieing hundreds of miles south to an island deserted by all but a few servants, and living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the name of not one of them was once mentioned lest the servitors learn their identity and disclose to the world this historic episode in American finance.
B.C. Forbes's Men Who Are Making America (1922 p. 398)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Secrecy Maintained
After a journey hedged with the utmost secrecy, the party were landed in a small boat at the deserted Jekyl Island, off Georgia.
"The servants must under no circumstances learn who we are," cautioned Senator Aldrich.
"What can we do to fool them?" asked another member of the group. The problem was discussed.
"I have it," cried one. "Let's all call each other by our first names. Don't ever let us mention our last names."
It was so agreed.
— B.C. Forbes's Men Who Are Making America (1922 p. 399)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Planning Begins
After a general discussion it was decided to draw up certain broad principles on which all could agree. Every member of the group voted for a central bank as being the ideal cornerstone for any national banking system. One by one other features were brought forward and carefully pondered. Day after day for more than a week these giant intellects wrestled with their colossal problem. They worked not five or eight hours a day, but all day and far into the night.
As quietly as they had left, the authors of the epochal Aldrich report disappeared from Jekyl Island and slipped into New York undetected.
— B.C. Forbes's Men Who Are Making America (1922 p. 399)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Role of Warburg
Paul M. Warburg more than any other man had made banking reform possible in this country. Trained scientifically in European national and international banking, our anachronistic currency system shocked him.
"The United States is at about the same point that had been reached by Europe at the time of the Medicis. We have been shown bricks of the time of Hammurabi, the Babylonian monarch, evidencing the sale of a crop and similar transactions, and I am inclined to believe that it was as easy to transfer the ownership of these bricks from one person to another as it is to-day for an American bank to realize upon its discounted paper, if indeed it was not easier."
— B.C. Forbes's Men Who Are Making America (1922 p. 400)
The Enactment of the Legislation: The Brandeis Compromise
Buffeted by this conflict within his Administration, President Wilson sought a compromise that could please both Glass and Bryan and then win the support of Congress, yet a compromise that would genuinely resolve the banking and currency problem. To sharpen his own thinking, Wilson sought the advice of the man whose opinions on economic matters he respected above all others, the prominent attorney Louis D. Brandeis. Brandeis, a man of undeniable brilliance, sided with Bryan on two key points: first, he believed that bankers must be excluded from control of the new system; and second, he believed that the Federal Reserve currency must be made an obligation of the United States government. "The conflict between the policies of the Administration and the desires of the financiers and of big business, is an irreconcilable one," Brandeis told Wilson. "Concessions to the big business interests must in the end prove futile."
— p. 27, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Wilson Meets with Glass
After several conferences, Wilson met on June 17 (1913) with Glass, Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, and Senator Robert Owen of Oklahoma (chairman of the newly created Senate Banking and Currency Committee and a supporter of Bryan's views), and he told them that he would insist upon exclusive government control of the Federal Reserve Board and would insist upon making Federal Reserve notes the obligation of the United States. The former was clearly a victory of substance for the Bryan group, while the latter point was merely a victory of form.
— pp. 22, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: What Bryan Wanted and Got
What Bryan and his followers really wanted was the retirement of national bank notes and their replacement by a supply of paper money issued on the initiative of public officials and backed up only by the government's promise to pay. What Bryan really got, however, was just the addition of relatively meaningless language to the basic provisions of the Glass bill. The Glass bill provided that Federal Reserve notes would be issued by the regional reserve banks against their own commercial assets and a 331/3 percent gold reserve, and the change which placated Bryan and other progressives was the mere declaration that these notes were obligations of the federal government. This additional language did not change the essential character of Federal Reserve notes as asset currency. Glass had been initially disappointed with Wilson's request for a public board to control the new system, but seeing that this was the absolute minimum that Bryan demanded, Glass had no real alternative but to accept it.
— p. 23, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: How Bryan Saved It
With the agrarian opposition still a threat to the passage of the bill, the most prominent agrarian radical in the country—Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan—moved dramatically to save it. Promising that the Ad- ministration would work to deal with the problem of interlocking directorates in the antitrust bill, Bryan asked his friends to stand by the President and support his banking program. Bryan's prestige was so great in the rural areas that his forceful advocacy shattered the radical opposition within the House, and the House Democratic caucus overwhelmingly approved the measure by the end of August. This approval meant that the Federal Reserve bill was a party measure, binding on all House Democrats.
— p. 27, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: The Role of Public Support
Continuing public support for the Federal Reserve bill hastened final Senate action in December. Respected conservatives continued to speak in opposition—Republican Senator Elihu Root of New York called the bill "financial heresy"—but they were overshadowed by the steady support from Progressive leaders, and the growing support for the bill among organized business opinion and a growing minority of bankers. On December 19 the critical vote was taken in the Senate, and the Federal Reserve bill was narrowly preferred over the modified Vanderlip plan by a margin of only three votes, 44 to 41. A few hours later the Senate passed the Federal Reserve bill itself, 54 to 34.
p. 31, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Creation of the Federal Reserve: Signing of the Act
On December 23, just a few hours after the Senate had completed action, President Wilson, surrounded by members of his family, his cabinet officers, and the Democratic leaders of Congress, signed the Federal Reserve Act. "I cannot say with what deep emotions of gratitude... I feel," the President said, "that I have had a part in completing a work which I think will be of lasting benefit to the business of the country."
The Federal Reserve Act was now law, and of all the men who deserve credit for this major reform of America's banking and currency system— Nelson Aldrich, Carter Glass, Robert Owen, William McAdoo, H. Parker Willis, and even William Jennings Bryan—none deserves more credit than President Wilson himself. Withstanding the contrary demands of the private bankers on the one hand and the agrarian radicals on the other, the President had supervised the development of a bill and had skillfully commanded Democratic support for it and led it through the congressional thicket.
—p. 32, "Historical Beginnings. The Federal Reserve" by Roger T. Johnson, (published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, revised 2010)
The Tapering Impact of Quantitative Easing
The assumption is that the Fed will taper off tapering, but the recent slight boost in the economy may push it to act. Questions remain about the impact of all the quantitative easing over the last several years. Economist Martin S. Feldstein wrote in the New York Times at the beginning of December that "the magnitude of the effect has been too small to raise economic growth to a healthy rate. Home building has increased rapidly, but from such a low level that its contribution to gross domestic product has been very small. And the increase in total consumer spending has slowed, despite the soaring stock market.
The net result is that the economy has been growing at an annual rate of less than 2 percent. (The latest estimate, that the economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.6 percent in the third quarter, overstates the strength of demand because half of that increase was just because of inventory accumulation.) Weak growth has also meant weak employment gains. The decline in unemployment, to 7 percent, as announced on Friday, has largely reflected the decreasing number of people looking for work. Total private-sector employment is actually less than it was six years ago.
There has been an underlying inflationary impact, noted Feldstein: "While doing little to stimulate the economy, the Fed's policy of low long-term interest rates has caused individuals and institutions to take excessive risks that could destabilize the economy just as it did before the 2007-9 recession. It has pushed up the values of everything from Iowa farmland to emerging-market bonds. Banks are lending to lower-quality commercial borrowers. Households are seeking higher returns by investing in real estate trusts and other high-risk products.
The Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath reviewed the impact of outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and noted that he had led "a frequently shifting central bank. Since November 2008, it has announced six versions of bond-buying programs. Six times it altered its language about keeping short-term rates near zero.
Twice in four years the Fed ended bond-buying programs, hopeful the economy was turning a corner, only to start new ones when growth flagged or inflation slowed too much.
Hilsenrath noted: "Some of the Fed's own studies don't find large gains from bond-buying programs. San Francisco Fed researchers Vasco Curdia and Andrea Ferrero estimated the program that ran from late 2010 to early 2011 raised growth by just 0.13 percentage point. By that measure, all of the bond programs together would have added less than a percentage point to economic output, and the benefit wanes over time."
The tapered tapering will box in the Fed, according to the Financial Times' Robin Harding: "The problem for the Fed is that a run of good news may lead markets to reject its forecast that interest rates will not rise until well into 2015, and only slowly after that. If market interest rates start to rise, that will slow the economy, and the Fed has weakened the communication tools could use to push back.
For example, the Fed's 6.5 per cent unemployment rate threshold, above which it will not raise interest rates, is now in effect defunct. Rather than lower that number, the Fed said it expects to keep rates low 'well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6.5 per cent', but a vague form of words such as this much easier for markets to test and disregard than a concrete figure."
The South Sea Bubble, the Bubble Act, and the Sword Blade Bank
Two erudite and discerning officials affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- the bellwether of the Federal Reserve System -- have posted another scholarly essay in their series entitled "Crisis Chronicles." An excerpt from the fine, and immediately relevant, work of James Narron, senior vice president and David Skeie, senior economist:
The South Sea Bubble of 1720—Repackaging Debt and the Current Reach for Yield
In 1720, the South Sea Company offered to pay the British government for the right to buy the national debt from debtholders in exchange for shares backed by dividends to be paid from the company's debt holdings and South Sea trade profits. The Bank of England countered the proposal and the two then competed for the right to buy the debt, with South Sea ultimately winning through bribes to the government. Later that year, the government moved to divert more capital to South Sea shares by hampering investment opportunities for rival companies in what became known as the Bubble Act, and public confidence was shaken. In this edition of the Crisis Chronicles, we explore the rise and fall of the South Sea Company and offer a cautionary look at the current reach for yield.
A Rogue's Guide to Repackaging Debt: Start with Insider Trading . . .
And remember from our introduction to the Crisis Chronicles series that "lessons learned often last only a lifetime and are easily forgotten." So, will the current reach for yield lead to ever more complex, leveraged investments and the next credit market bubble? Or will the lessons from the Great Recession last at least a lifetime? Tell us what you think.
It is heartening, and a great credit to the Bank, to know that the New York Fed harbors and encourages such scholarly senior officials and are taking advantage of what Lewis E. Lehrman, founder and chairman of the Lehrman Institute, consistently propounds as the one true guide for policymakers: the laboratory of human history.
Bernanke's Quantitative Legacy
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is getting ready to move out so he is setting up his legacy. As the New York Times Binyamin Applebaum reported on a speech to the National Economics Club: "Mr. Bernanke, in a speech with valedictory overtones as he prepares to step down, described the Fed's efforts to revive the economy since 2008 as coherent, consistent and successful. And he emphasized once again that even as the Fed begins to retreat, it would maintain the bulk of the campaign for years to come."
In his speech, Bernanke gave some forward guidance: ""Crossing one of the thresholds will not automatically give rise to an increase in the federal funds rate target. Instead, it will signal only that it is appropriate for the committee to begin considering whether an increase in the target is warranted." Applebaum added: "Some Fed officials support a lower threshold, an option that Mr. Bernanke did not address."
Forbes Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes recently wrote that "central bankers like Ben Bernanke and his putative successor, Janet Yellen, claim we need more inflation, preferably an annual rate of 2% to 2.5%. That level would cost a family making $40,000 annually an extra $800 to $1,000 a year in higher prices. If you ever run across a central banker or an economist who shares this weird view, ask that person which elected body gave the Fed–or any other central bank–the authority to impose such a tax. In the early part of the last decade the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department instituted a weak-dollar policy, which led to the housing bubble, the boom in commodities, the inflation in farmland prices, hothouse growth in the financial sector and a bubble in bonds–and, perhaps, stocks. But just as many doctors in the mid-19th century fiercely resisted Lister's germ theory by refusing to wash their hands before surgeries, these policymakers remain wedded to their malignant theories."
Echoing a thesis long made by Lewis E. Lehrman, Forbes wrote: "Money is a measure of value, just as inches and minutes are measures of length and time. Money facilitates transactions – buying and selling – between willing parties. It's claim on products and services, and its infinitely less cumbersome than barter. Changing the intrinsic value of money no more leads to sustainable growth than would changing the number of minutes in an hour or how many inches constitute a foot."
Sustaining the value of money is the real purpose of the Federal Reserve – a legacy that is far too often ignored. As Phil Gramm and Thomas R. Saving recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal of the Fed's recent quantitative easing: "Never in our history has so much money been spent to produce so little good, and the full bill for this failed policy has yet to arrive. No such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending."
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Carson Helicopters, lax oversight blamed in crash
Lax federal oversight and a company's deliberate underestimating of the weight of a firefighting helicopter led to a 2008 crash in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, killing nine men and injuring four others, investigators concluded Tuesday.
The immediate reason for the crash of the heavy-duty, specially outfitted Sikorsky S-61N was owner Carson Helicopters Inc.'s decision to underestimate the craft's weight by 1,437 pounds, making it too heavy by more than 3,000 pounds to lift off, the National Transportation Safety Board said at a meeting in Washington.
The company intentionally altered documents on the helicopter's weight so it could win a contract to supply the Forest Service with the chopper, the board said.
But the board also pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Forest Service, saying both agencies failed to monitor the helicopter company at the center of one of the worst copter accidents in U.S. history.
"Carson engaged in a bargain that violated the trust of their crew members, the firefighters that they carried onboard and the aviation industry," said Deborah Hersman, chairwoman of the federal safety board. "But the FAA and the Forest Service did not hold up their end of the deal to oversee Carson's actions."
In a statement, Carson disputed the findings, saying the board had "chosen to ignore the physical evidence" showing that engine failure was to blame for the crash on Aug. 5, 2008.
The company said the faulty weight estimates "were the actions of one manager who acted without the knowledge or consent of Carson senior management."
The company also disputed the board's calculation of the helicopter's weight, and said that even if it had been too heavy, it "should have had enough power to fly away."
But Carson told the Federal Aviation Administration later Tuesday that it will surrender its operating certificates, which are required for commercial flights, an agency official said.
The crash happened in a forested area about 70 miles northwest of Redding as the copter was bringing a group of firefighters battling a nearby blaze back to their base camp.
The copter climbed 40 or 50 feet before the nose and then the rotor blades hit trees and branches. The craft slammed to the ground on its left side about 100 yards from the takeoff spot.
Killed were seven firefighters from Grayback Forestry, a private firefighting firm based in Merlin, Ore., along with a Carson Helicopters pilot and a U.S. Forest Service employee.
The safety board said that a contributing factor was that the flight crew was "accustomed to the operating limit of the helicopter's performance" and pushed the envelope too far, the federal safety board said.
Carson intentionally falsified records on how much the helicopter weighed when empty and altered charts to exaggerate the copter's lifting capabilities, the safety board said.
The board recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration step up its oversight of planes and helicopters that operate as both "public" and "civil" aircraft.
Public aircraft - those used and owned by the government, like the doomed helicopter - are largely exempt from agency regulations. The government owns some firefighting planes but leases others from companies such as Carson.
The board said the U.S. Forest Service relied too heavily on the aviation agency to oversee such companies.
The aviation agency is reviewing the safety board's findings, spokesman Ian Gregor said.
Larry Chambers, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, said his agency "is committed to learn from tragedies such as this. The agency has aggressively pursued opportunities to improve its operations from the onset of this accident."


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OLYMPIA A Yakima Valley lawmaker wants to change how law enforcement seizes assets.
Currently, police can seize the assets of Washingtonians who are simply suspected of a crime.
Rep. David Taylor, a Republican from Moxee, is one of the sponsors of bipartisan bill HB 1016. It would prohibit law enforcement from seizing property from people who have not been found guilty.
It would only allow police to take assets directly involved in a criminal case.
Taylor's bill receives a hearing today in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
Police departments are making profits from seizures, Taylor said.
"In national stories, a lot they call this 'policing for profit,' because they're getting kickbacks," he explained. "There's an incentive to seize property without conviction. We're trying to protect people's individual rights under the Fourth Amendment for illegal search and seizures without conviction."
A study from the non-profit Institute for Justice gave the Evergreen State a grade of 'D-minus' for its forfeiture laws.
It found between 2001 and 2013, the state collected more than $108 million from forfeiture proceeds.
It contends 90 percent of that went to law enforcement.
Taylor also wants to close a loophole that could allow local and state law enforcement that partner with federal agencies on investigations to receive forfeiture proceeds even under the proposed law.
An amendment to the original bill is being proposed so property worth less than $50,000 can't be seized.
"Leave out the little ones to de-incentivize those regional drug task forces, for example, from taking or seizing smaller properties: vehicles, campers and so on," he said.
Taylor says the amendment would set a threshold of $50,000 because anything worth more than this is most likely part of a major racketeering case.
— Eric Tegethoff is with the Washington News Service.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Milwaukee's fire chief is investigating whether nine firefighters should be disciplined for allegedly damaging the inside of a fire house, a city official said Wednesday.
The firefighters were put on administrative suspension Tuesday and aren't reporting to work during the investigation, said Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission Executive Director Michael Tobin. The nine are still being paid.
He said Wednesday the allegations also involve other inappropriate conduct inside the firehouse, which is on the north side of town. It did not involve any citizens, he said.
"The events under investigation in no way had any negative impact to the citizens we serve," Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing said in a statement Tuesday evening. "We rightfully hold ourselves to the highest standards to ensure not only the most professional service delivery but also fostering a safe work environment based upon the ideals of mutual respect and personal and professional integrity."
Rohlfing did not immediately return a call Wednesday. A secretary at the firefighters union, Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Local 215, referred calls to the fire chief.
Tobin couldn't comment on the specifics, but said the allegations happened "within days" of the firefighters being put on leave.
He said the chief and an investigator with the commission are looking into the allegations. He said the chief will make the final decision on possible disciplinary action, and if the firefighters don't agree with the outcome they can appeal to the commission.
Mayor Tom Barrett's spokesman, Jeff Fleming, said the mayor has been briefed and asked the chief to conduct a thorough review.
According to the department's website, the department has more than 800 firefighters and 36 fire stations.
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