Today any lingering doubts that the market is a complete and manipulated farce were put to rest following the epic embarassment that was the early release of FOMC minutes due to what Steve Liesman announced was a leak of the March minutes yesterday to a hundred or so staffers and various lobby organizations, which means the minutes promplty became public knowledge to anyone and everyone connected to Washington, such as all hedge funds, banks, and other financial firms. Everyone, except of course, the general public. Which is why we politely petition the Fed to add us and all of ours readers to the early distribution list for the Minutes and all other releases that are leaked in advance of distribution to the general public. Since we have all given up on any pretense of a "fair and efficient" market, it is only "fair" (at least until such time that Chairman Bernanke decides to finally start throwing €500 and ¥100,000,000,000,000 bills out of helicopters).
We urge readers to make liberal use of the Fed's contact [8]page and request "fair" and equal treatment with those who in the eyes of the Fed are more equal than all others.
Some other ways of requesting a subscription to the Fed's early release newsletter:
Via Twitter: @federalreserve [9]
General Comments for the Chairman and the Board of Governors
The Board welcomes your feedback. Comments can be submitted by e-mail, phone, or postal mail:
Phone: 202-974-7008
E-mail: Submit a comment through our online contact us form [10].
Mailing Address:
20th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20551
Privacy policy [11]
Media inquiries for the Board of Governors should be directed to the Public Affairs office: Phone: 202-452-2955
Consumer Assistance
Consumers can contact the Federal Reserve to file complaints about financial institutions that the Federal Reserve regulates and get answers to frequently answered questions:
Website: Federal Reserve Consumer Help (FRCH) [12]
Phone: 888-851-1920 (Phone), 877-766-8533 (TTY)
E-mail [13]
File a Complaint [14]
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Finally, failing that (because it will fail), here is the contact info for the Inspector General. As a reminder, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) was established by Congress as an independent oversight authority within the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The OIG operates a Hotline to facilitate the reporting of fraud, waste, or abuse in either agency's programs or activities. That is, of course assuming, the OIG would not want to keep the early leaked Fed data all to themselves.
OIG website [15]
OIG Contact page: Contact page [16]
OIG Hotline page [17] (includes confidentiality policy)
To report fraud, waste, or abuse in either agency's programs or activities, please contact the OIG Hotline as follows:
E-mail: OIGHotline@frb.gov [17]
Mailing address:
Office of Inspector General
c/o Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th St. and Constitution Ave. N.W.
Mail Stop K-300
Washington, D.C. 20551
Attn: Hotline
Phone numbers: 800-827-3340
202-452-6400