"Brian Sack" is an United States/American writer and actor. From 2011-2014 he was the host of The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack, a sketch comedy show on TheBlaze television network.

He is the author of three books. The United States vs. Santa Claus: The Untold Story of the Actual War on Christmas, was a satirical look at the United States government's ham-fisted efforts to change the public opinion of Santa Claus.

His second book, The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted (Simon & Schuster, 2011), inspired the television show he hosted. His first book, In the Event of My Untimely Demise (HarperCollins, 2008) consisted of tongue-in-cheek advice for his sons.

Sack served as a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Threshold, 2009) as well as Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say (Threshold, 2009)

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The most provocative interpretation is that market participants anticipated that the committee was going to become more democratic once Greenspan departed, and hence began to pay more attention to the comments by other FOMC members.

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The statement took a modest step toward becoming more forward looking. That is the direction we see of communication more generally.

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Markets are certainly focused on people who speak effectively about macroeconomic issues and the outlook for policy. The key issue here may be whether they choose to speak clearly and forcefully about near- term economic issues.

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Greenspan continued to be the most influential committee member. However, his dominance was markedly diminished, in that his total market impact was 'only' about twice as large as the next FOMC member.

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He would take stands on very important issues ... that at times did not fully agree with the chairman or other committee members, but would do so in a very effective way.

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The committee has been very clear about what its strategy is. It expects to continue to tighten, but it doesn't know how much farther it has to go, and those decisions will depend on the incoming data.

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Greenspan continued to be the most influential committee member.

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The most provocative interpretation (of this change) is that market participants anticipated that the Committee was going to become more democratic once Greenspan departed, and hence began to pay more attention to the comments by other FOMC members.

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