Ultimately, the Fed knows that interest rates can only go up, even if it sits on its hands until after the presidential election.By contrast, the man defending that election has no choice but to be proactive.
Hold on a tick, my wobbly podium needs stabilising: I'm painfully aware of being a middle-class white male defending the election of a middle-class white male atop an urban music countdown.
"What we are fighting for, in defending this election, is equality - equality in politics", said Tida Tawornseth, who leads the pro-government red-shirt movement, the UDD.
In June, Montana endured another defeat defending its elections system, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on corporate political money was unconstitutional.
The board's president, Stephannie Andrews, who was not up for re-election, defended the announced election results as proper.
He said Peru's foreign minister would attend the meeting of American states in Canada to defend the election process.
The Royal Society has defended its election of the Duke of York as a fellow despite some of its members branding him "over-colourful" and lacking a scientific background.
David Cameron has defended his election campaign after donors accused him of being lacklustre and Rupert Murdoch warned he could soon be facing the chop.
Hundreds of protesters turned up to denounce the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who used the podium on Wednesday evening to defend his election in June.
Salmond is now under intense pressure to defend his election strategy after the SNP failed to make any gains yesterday, instead losing the Glasgow East seat won at the byelection in 2008 by a significant margin of about 12,000 votes.
