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Anatole Kaletsky: Central bankers have a 'license to lie'
By Anatole Kaletsky
Reuters
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who retires this week as the world's most powerful central banker, cannot be trusted.
Neither can Janet Yellen, who will succeed him this weekend at the Federal Reserve.
And neither can Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank; or any of their counterparts at the central banks of Turkey, Argentina, Ukraine, and so on.
I am not trying to aim a valedictory insult at Bernanke or his central banking colleagues. On the contrary, I am drawing attention to the skill and determination required by central bankers to perform one of the world's most demanding and important jobs. For just as James Bond has a "license to kill" in the Ian Fleming books, so central bankers possess a "license to lie" -- or, putting it more diplomatically and politely, to make promises about the future that cannot be honored and often turn to be false. ...
... For the complete commentary:
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/01/30/a-central-bankers-l...
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