Previously, I posted a criticism of the Fed system here which was unwarranted. In an attempt to test a link in message #656, I received the message "This page is not available." The pub in question was The Balance of Power, The Political Fight for a Central Bank, 1790-Present, composed by Tim Todd at the FRB KC. I originally discovered it at the Fed District Bank in Minneapolis.

I visited the KC site and after exploring various options, I discovered the book is still available. The site that worked for me can be reached with this link.

http://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/aboutthefed/

Kate: My guardian angel, the tireless and unbelievably super efficent Margaret, has volunteered to replace the existing Tsunami thread which you have so generously and tirelessly rescued (not once, but twice!) with the original which she has salvaged and already tidied up minimally so that all original entries are as they were generated since March, 2009 on the MSMoney Market Talk message board.

If that is acceptable to you, she'd be willing to undertake the project. The only thing she insists as proper is: if she were to accept the responsibility, she'd first learn the html protocol inorder to do it justice and reproduce it exactly as it was formatted from the beginning.

Inquiring after how long that might take, she wouldn't estimate. But, knowing her capabilities, she's just liable to take an extra five minutes or so over her coffee break one day (which I suspect are little more than refuge to concentrate on something without interruption) and fifteen minutes or a half hour later, she'll return and announce she's good to go! Nothing is out of reach of her talent.