The alchemists, three central bankers and a world on fire, Neil Irwin
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The alchemists, three central bankers and a world on fire, Neil Irwin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The alchemists
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
796756230
Responsibility statement
Neil Irwin
Sub title
three central bankers and a world on fire
Summary
Explores the work of the world's most powerful central bankers-- --Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank--offering a view from the cockpit of the global economy as the three men struggled to keep it from going down
Table of contents
Opening the spigot -- Rise of the alchemists, 1656-2006. Johan Palmstruch and the birth of central banking ; Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot's dictum ; The First Name Club ; Madness, nightmare, desperation, chaos : when central banking goes wrong-- in two acts ; The anguish of Arthur Burns ; Spinning the roulette wheel in Maastricht ; Masaru Hayami, tomato ketchup, and the agony of ZIRP ; The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation -- Panic, 2007-2008. The Committee of Three ; Over by Christmas ; A wall of money -- Aftermath, 2009-2010. The battle for the Fed ; The new Greek Odyssey ; The King's speech ; The perilous maiden voyage of the QE2 -- The second wave, 2011-2012. The chopper, the troika, and the Deauville debacle ; The President of Europe ; Escape velocity ; Super Mario world ; Governor Zhou's Chinese medicine ; Back to Jackson
Target audience
adult
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