{"id":699656,"date":"2010-03-24T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80246"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:19:02","slug":"during-the-boom-greenspan-never-attended-his-own-consumer-advisory-council%e2%80%99s-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699656","title":{"rendered":"During the Boom, Greenspan Never Attended His Own Consumer Advisory Council\u2019s Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80227\/feds-consumer-advisory-council-warned-of-doomsday-scenario\">if you&#8217;re going through the transcripts of the Consumer Advisory Council<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke attends the meetings, which are held three times a year in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>We were curious: During the boom, did former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan ever go to the meetings? Maybe rub elbows with consumer advocates who were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/18\/business\/18subprime.html?pagewanted=print\">sounding<\/a> the alarms over high-rate subprime mortgages?<\/p>\n<p>Our researcher, Rachel Hartman, got some limited info from the Fed. From 2000 to the end of his term in 2006, Greenspan never attended a single CAC meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, if you&#8217;re going through the transcripts of the Consumer Advisory Council, you&#8217;ll see that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke attends the meetings, which are held three times a year in Washington, D.C. We were curious: During the boom, did former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan ever go to the meetings? Maybe rub elbows with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W0M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}