“Nerdfest” sounds like it turned a bit testy on Saturday. The normally mild-mannered Fed vice-chair Don Kohn dove off the top turn-buckle and hit some economist from UC Santa Cruz with a folding chair. Here is the WSJ account.
Kohn defends Fed at Jackson Hole
Jamie Coleman
22/08/2009 | 23:57 GMT
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