7、"It has cost a lot to learn how little we really knew," says a senior central banker.
11、Even so, how much regret would even the most hawkish central banker feel if inflation rose above 2% for a while without making bond investors nervous?
15、And he had good luck, at least in the timing of his guardianship of the Old Lady's honour. No bad thing in a general, nor in a central banker.
2、No one says that being a central banker is easy.
6、He was not the only central banker to come to this realisation, or even the first.
12、But, as a wise central banker, you know that for a country to grow its economy, it needs a singular currency so the proletariat doesn't get confused.
17、These early central bankers were an odd lot.
5、Liaquat Ahamed suggests that strong more than anyone else "invented the modern central banker".
13、Among other things Germany's top central banker wants to avoid a home replay of the credit and property boom whose excesses have been so harmful in Spain.
3、As one central banker ruefully puts it: "Japan is not faced with an imminent debt crisis."
10、For a central banker to boast of the discovery that a bank he supervises has been overstating its assets, probably for years, it takes some chutzpah.
4、Italy's top central banker, Mario Draghi, will succeed Mr Trichet in November.
16、Usually it makes sense for a new central banker to err towards caution, but the single currency’s future will hinge on whether Mr Draghi is brave enough to be radical.
14、EVEN now, not every central banker is terribly impressed by the gravity of the financial crisis that has spread from Western banks to the emerging world's shares, currencies and credit markets.
1、How can you get a central banker to do that?
9、That's why we need independence of the central bank; we want to have a central banker that can say no to the government.
8、CONSISTENCY may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it is an excellent quality in a central banker.
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