Dissenters are becoming dying breed at the Fed

FEATURE - It appears the imposing figure of Alan Greenspan at meetings of the US Federal Reserve is more than enough to persuade other members to keep their mouths shut. Report from Bloomberg news agency, New York.

Trolling for a column topic, I came upon a voting history for the Federal Reserve's policy-setting committee on Stone & McCarthy Research's service on the Bloomberg terminal.

The first thing I noticed was that dissent had gone the way of the dodo. Including the eight scheduled meetings

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