Health crisis warranted 'forceful' response from Fed, minutes show

(Reuters) - Faced with an accelerating global health crisis, Federal Reserve officials agreed last month they needed a pull-out-all-the-stops response even while struggling to comprehend the depth and ultimate path of an unprecedented sudden halt in the world's largest economy. In the first detailed account of how the U.S. central bank decided to launch an historic economic rescue plan, minutes of the Fed's emergency meetings in March showed policymakers trying to stay ahead of the rapidly..