Everybody is prone to an “oops” moment now and then – including the Fed. The Federal Reserve Board said on Friday that staff notes were accidentally leaked on its website. Economic projects prepared by staff as background for the June 16-17 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were inadvertently included in a computer file posted on its public website on June 29. A press release announcing the incident explains what happened: Approximately every three months, Federal Reserve Board staff update and publish on the Board’s website a package of computer code of the Board staff’s FRB/US model of…
Whoops! The Fed Accidentally Posted Internal Documents Online
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