31 (Whereupon, the proceedings commenced2 at 8:30 a.m.)3 GOVERNOR OLSON: We will begin. We4 have all but one of our panelists. I understand5 one of the panelists, Ira Goldstein, is in route,6 and we have two of the four representatives from7 the Fed system. I'm sure the other two will be8 here shortly.9 Let me, first of all, thank10 Philadelphia Fed for hosting these meetings this11 morning and providing us with the facilities.12 These are extraordinarily useful sessions. We13 finished the session in Chicago on Wednesday, and14 we're happy to be here today.15 We've got -- just to talk through, if I16 can, in order to make the best use of the time,17 we've asked each of the panelists to give us a18 five-minute opening statement, and after the19 five-minute statement, what you will get, and20 would you show them the signs, so that they know.21 The first is one minute, the second is, time is22 up. There's not a lot of ambiguity in those, and23 we tend to enforce those pretty rigorously, and24 because of that fact, what we've discovered is
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