There is an unwritten rule among the world’s elite club of central bankers that they don’t criticise each other. Whatever happens, these “Lords of Finance” stick together.
It shouldn’t, therefore, have been a surprise to see Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, come leaping to the defence of the European Central Bank (ECB) during his quarterly inflation report press conference yesterday, over its refusal to act as “lender of last resort” to troubled eurozone nations by buying up their bonds without limit.
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