By 6 o’clock Friday most of us where either still shopping or relaxing and enjoying the two day holiday Thanksgiving has become. Nevertheless, Lee Adler a Wall Street Examiner reporter, was watching our backs and caught the New York City office of The Federal Reserve whispering an apology over the poor quality of its recent financial forecasts. Even quasi-government agencies pull this stunt all the time. They dump bad stuff on Friday afternoons, so it gets lost in Saturday’s news cycle – the least read or listened to of the week.
Some of what the Fed report acknowledged follows.
While both public and private analysts were forecasting a weak 1.3% rate of growth in real GDP for 2008, The Federal Reserve office of New York City was promoting its forecast of 2.6% which was over optimistic by a factor of twice the true number.
Since the actual rate of change in the GDP for 2008 is now thought to be a negative 3.3% the Fed’s prediction may have been off by a debilitating 5.9% given necessary calculation adjustments.
The Fed’s confession of incompetence continued to an explanation of how wrong it was in rejecting what should have been convincing evidence of trouble in the housing market. The overvaluation of the real estate market should have raised red flags but it did not. Because of its willful blindness, investors relying on the Fed’s “expertise” where caught unaware of the impending collapse of the housing market with disastrous consequences.
Using “professional” jargon to obfuscate its clear culpability, the report then turned to the Fed’s having given….
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that bunch of dumb asses cant get anything right.
maybe the numbers were miscalculated to make pres. & congress look better.. will a candidate please challenge bo's elgibility to run in 2012
oh crap, that was not a mistake, it was deliberate, as all this crap is. they lie. it’s as simple as that. they all lie and hope no one will catch them, just like slick willie did…………