Sentences with phrase «best central bankers»

In the current situation, he said, the best central bankers can do is say that things would have been even worse had they not acted after the crisis.

Dan Ritter lists four reasons that the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, may be the world's best central banker.

Carney earned the reputation of being the best central banker in the world, at least in the estimation of the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, who finally managed to persuade Carney to accept the appointment as governor of the Bank of England this week.

When times are good central bankers are heroes.

A good central banker, applying the rule, should minimize inflation and macroeconomic volatility.

Not exact matches

Their interest - rate moves used to follow the U.S. Federal Reserve, but more country - specific issues have forced central bankers to do what they think is best for them.

Separately, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban centralized trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

In January, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

The eurozone's central bankers, as well as some of the less charitable politicians in the region's lending countries, say Spain must first request that money from the central bailout funds and agree to stringent conditions in return for support.

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22 - The Icelandic economy, known for its often dramatic ups and downs, is now slowing down after years of strong growth - and that's good, its chief central banker told Reuters.

Confronted with the choice of whether to «lean» or to «clean» — leaning against emerging financial imbalances by keeping interest rates higher than they otherwise would be or cleaning up in the event the risks they create are realized by providing stimulus — central bankers at that time generally agreed that cleaning would be best.

As a central banker, I am most concerned that credit risks and liquidity risks associated with payments are well managed.

As a former central banker, I understand very well the

«The best response by central bankers is to continue running effective monetary policy, while being open to fresh ideas and new demands, as economies evolve.»

Japan's FSA authorities have just hosted the first ever multi-national Blockchain Roundtable for central bankers and South Korea is now reportedly also doing their best to encourage blockchain development for user protection.

Lately the 53 - year - old central banker has moved on to bigger (and better - connected) game.

Instead, synthetic gold, sourced in pyramids of credit extended to bullion bankers by central banks with little or no claim on physical substance, have provided a more efficient, better - camouflaged form of intervention.

We believe that nothing would serve better to undermine confidence in central bankers than a bear market in bonds and equities.

Well, maybe someday some journalist somewhere will put to a central banker a critical question about gold.

Central bankers prepare to take away punch bowl William McChesney Martin, who was US Federal Reserve chairman from 1951 to 1970, famously relayed a writer's quip that the central banker's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party is starting to geCentral bankers prepare to take away punch bowl William McChesney Martin, who was US Federal Reserve chairman from 1951 to 1970, famously relayed a writer's quip that the central banker's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party is starting to gecentral banker's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party is starting to get good.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

But I think that central bankers know good and well that once these cryptocurrency bubbles burst, laying in their wake will be a very refined technology that allows central bank cryptocurrencies to rise up where they have left off.

And I particularly play in the currency space and one of the thing that's attractive there is the idea that in eras where you have reckless central banking there's huge distinction between reckless central bankers and those who are engaged in reckless central banking with abadon and as a result I think that there becomes some real value disparities from a currency standpoint as well.

I've long wondered that after four years of unprecedented monetary policy with still very tepid at best economic growth, just whether investors would lose faith in the Fed (and really global central bankers for that matter) and politicians.

It's a quietly voiced frustration among current and former central bankers that the candidate best qualified to lead the Federal Reserve isn't even being considered by the Obama administration.

Frankly because much of the market can't imagine themselves as being that central banker in that seat, but if you were, you know, like any good parent, you wouldn't necessarily want to be painted in the corner by your kid.

Five years after an epic spree of reckless mortgage lending in the U.S. sank the global financial system, U.S. banks are healing relatively well, thanks to aggressive rate slashing and money printing early on by U.S. central bankers.

We have a good old - fashioned central banker throwdown in progress, and if the results didn't have such an impact on our investment portfolios, it could actually be quite fun to watch.

On this account, bad news is good news, as central bankers are scrambling to stimulate economic growth.

«Unfortunately, had they not kept monetary policy unnecessarily tight two years ago (as was pointed out to them at the time), perhaps we wouldn't today be left wondering if our central banker's plan for youth unemployment involves flagrant violations of the Employment Standards Act,» wrote Mike Moffatt, a well - known Canadian economist, dodgeball aficionado, and Pokemon Go enthusiast.

Additionally, some would argue that central bankers» aggressively dovish policy stance reflects deeper worries about the state of the world economy, suggesting gold may offer a better store of value during these volatile times.

A blogger at Slate counters that Protestant central bankers performed the best of any religious group (Eccles, mentioned below, was a Mormon):

The disheartening part is that this sort of rampant criminality by the NY bankers reappears throughout history (the European bankers as well — they own the Fed, as well as Bank of England, every central bank in the world, including the central bank of the central banks — the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland), and nothing happens.

(While hardly gold bulls, they do conclude that «as long as central bankers are pursuing Code Red policies, gold will do well.»).

Regulated institutions generally have better contacts and relationships with the top central bankers than their supervisors do.

«I have a very good job at the University of Chicago, and I am actually an academic, not a professional central banker.

Sounds good, but it would require discipline on the part of the central bankers to stick to it, because of political pressures to goose growth, or banks complaining that they can't earn enough.

Perhaps the most remarkable response was from Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, who said in a speech in February that that cryptocurrencies could, among other things, improve financial stability, inclusion and provide better value than traditional fiat currencies, particularly in less developed countries and warned central bankers to ignore them at their peril

The South Korean government has called for financial regulators and central bankers of 23 other countries as well as 12 organizations, including the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, to collaborate on curbing cryptocurrency trading.

Its members are financial regulators and central bankers from 24 countries, including South Korea, as well as 12 international organizations.

The head of the IMF said two weeks ago to a room full of Central Bankers that they should not «dismiss» cryptocurrencies as they may very well give Central Banks «a run for their money».