Article: Blind spots; Central bankers in history.(Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World)(Book review)

Article: Four central bankers bumbled their way into the ...
Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario);  May 9, 2009 ;     684 words ... ... anecdotes, his book focuses on four central bankers who played critical roles in ... after the First World War as central bankers tried to rebuild a system of ... Another major cause was the gold standard used to set the value of currencies ...

Article: Central bankers will not repeat mistakes of the ...
The Sunday Herald;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... monetary policy and germinated by a series of banking panics, and then infected the rest of the world through the international gold standard. The mechanisms of financial policy are, happily, very different today, and central banks, with the possible exception ...

Article: It all went wrong when we left the gold standard
The Independent - London;  October 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... than the good word of politicians and central bankers, was inherently unsound; he lived ... break decisively with the International Gold Standard. Up until August 1971, the owner ... America immediately came off the gold standard, after which there was no theoretical ...

Article: Don't write off the euro - well, not just yet anyway In economics ...
The Independent - London;  May 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... is no danger of the euro becoming a weak currency. When central bankers say there is no danger of something happening, you know ... for ever, and the euro will eventually go the way of the gold standard and the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, and be ...

Article: Central bankers need to be radical in our ...
The Independent - London;  December 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ...HOW DO you convert conservative central bankers into radical policy makers? This ... monetary policies? Fortunately, some central bankers are already on the case. Ben Bernanke ... already outlined some of the things that central bankers could do in a world where short ...

Article: COMMENT: Central bankers are no supermen.
Fund Strategy;  May 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Central bankers are widely seen as the supermen ... as great as it seems. Critics of central bankers still generally hold to the view ... primarily because of a shift by central bankers (see page 8). In his view, the ...

Article: Money's worth; Central bankers' pay.(The non-market ...
The Economist (US);  August 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... single, global market for central bankers is years away OUR Big Mac ... based on the relative pay of central bankers rather than the price of burgers ... contrast, says a survey of central bankers' pay by Central Banking Publications ...