Minneapolis Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota gave a presentation before the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce earlier today. While still following the party line, Kocherlakota continues to demonstrate out of the box type type thinking, which hopefully will push him into the Hoenig camp before it is too late. His biggest warning, which is inline with prevailing common sense arising out of the fact that the Fed's SOMA has a $1 billion DV01, is that Bernanke will have to sell "a nontrivial amount of its MBS holdings if it is to be able to normalize its balance sheet in the next two decades. Such sales might cause untoward jumps in interest rates unless the Federal Reserve is able to credibly commit to a sufficiently slow pace." Yet even Narayana does not see any normalization in the monetary picture until 2020: "I am optimistic that we will be able to normalize our balance sheet by the end of the teens." Which means, no rate hike until 2015 theearliest, and possibly later. And you all thought the Maestro was bad. 