I supported this action within the meeting and then later publicly. The Committee took no further significant policy action until the last two meetings in August and September 2011, at which the FOMC added considerably more accommodation. I dissented from the FOMC decisions at these last two meetings.
65 years ago, the founders of the EU decided that we could only achieve results if we were united in facing common problems. At the time, the problem was war and the objective was peace. And it worked.