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"The transcripts of the 2006 meetings, released after a standard five-year delay,
clearly show some of the nation’s pre-eminent economic minds did not fully understand
the basic mechanics of the economy that they were charged with supervising."

— Binyamin Appelbaum in the Jan. 12 online New York Times

Academics may recall other examples of comfortably ignorant collegiality.