A random list of key words and their frequency brings some interesting results whose interpretation I leave up to my readers. Actually it should not be interpreted but just taken as piece of light - and hopefully entertaining - reading.
Using the search engine at the Federal Reserve's website one notes first that one gets redirected to a site of the Fed New York.
- I first used "money" as this is what the Fed is all about: 12,633 matches.
- "Dollar" brought a lot more results: 44,642 matches. We now know the Fed is mainly concerned with the dollar.
- "Inflation" resulted in 26,995 matches.
- "Fiat money": 12,744 matches.
- "Debt": 11,097 matches.
- "Risk": 10,458 matches.
- "Policy": 8,070 matches.
- "Gold": 5,529 matches.
- "Economy": 1,504 matches.
- "Risk management: 520 matches.
- "Hope": 512 matches.
- "Reform": 479 matches.
- "Crisis": 314 matches.
- "Recession" is a no-no word: 303 matches.
- "War": 268 matches.
- "Silver": 181 matches.
- "Collapse": 125 matches.
- "Bubble": 105 matches.
- "Love": 48 matches.
- "Fallout": 32 matches.
- "Meltdown": 18 matches.
- "Fiat": 17 matches.
- "Conundrum": 13 matches, first time in 1998 by Roger Ferguson. 6 matches in 2005.
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