Now Republican leaders and presidential candidates are flouting the idea of central-bank independence. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Mexico has nominated its central-bank chief, Agustin Carstens, a respected economist and former deputy managing director of the IMF. ❋ David Luhnow (2011)
Emerging from a fractious and inconclusive meeting, the central-bank chief damned its results with faint praise, saying only that the outcome "goes in the right direction." ❋ Geoffrey T. Smith (2011)
The Fed's results came out on the same day that Republican lawmakers took central-bank officials to task for advocating more steps to help the housing market. ❋ Luca Di Leo (2012)
What's ignored is that the document—released to stimulate debate, not offer official doctrine—embraces a sound economic theory concerning the cause of the world financial crisis: the breakdown of the postwar Bretton Woods monetary system and the unleashing of fiat currencies and central-bank printing presses. ❋ Robert A. Sirico (2011)
A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central-bank decision last week that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he founded, intensifying a struggle between Mr. Yunus and the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. ❋ Tom Wright (2011)
Mr. Noonan told reporters Monday that the latest thinking of some central-bank officials is that the recapitalization needs may still exceed €10 billion. ❋ Riva Froymovich (2011)
Mr. Basci, a key player in the creation of Turkey's eye-catching monetary policies and a high-school friend of the country's economy minister, was nominated to replace Durmus Yilmaz as central-bank governor earlier this month. ❋ Joe Parkinson (2011)
Mexico has fielded its central-bank governor as a candidate, and there are signs South Africa's former finance minister could enter the race. ❋ Tom Orlik (2011)
That was despite two central-bank rate cuts in the same period. ❋ Cynthia Koons (2012)
The bank's German chief economist, Jürgen Stark , resigned in September, reportedly over his refusal to condone its bond-buying operations, while Axel Weber , formerly a front-runner to take over from Jean-Claude Trichet as ECB president, withdrew his candidacy in February, also over the issue of central-bank bond purchases. ❋ Alen Mattich (2011)
More than 'greed,' fiat money and central-bank policies caused the financial crisis. ❋ Robert A. Sirico (2011)
*** World-Wide Italy's central-bank chief said every country must prove its sovereign solvency and that higher borrowing costs were the natural destiny for those who failed to stoke economic growth. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Indeed, central-bank policies continue to encourage this shift. ❋ Richard Barley (2011)
Some central-bank officials, on the other hand, have taken a strong stance against any restructuring. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A high court in Bangladesh upheld a central-bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he founded, intensifying a struggle between Yunus and the government. ❋ Unknown (2011)
LONDON—A majority of investors expect the euro zone's debt crisis to end with massive central-bank buying of bonds, but almost a quarter expect the breakup of the currency bloc, a Barclays Capital survey of more than 500 institutional investors showed. ❋ Eva Szalay (2011)
ISTANBUL—Turkey's new central-bank governor on Thursday issued a robust defence of the bank's experimental monetary policy to curb hot money growth and cool a domestic lending boom, indicating that benchmark interest rates are unlikely to rise in the near term. ❋ Joe Parkinson (2011)
The expectations for a moderate economy should lead central-bank officials to continue to keep interest rates exceptionally low for an "extended period," Mr. Bernanke said. ❋ Jon Hilsenrath (2011)
The central-bank bond purchases, called quantitative easing, or QE, generally are meant to drive down long-term interest rates and spur spending and investment. ❋ Megumi Fujikawa (2012)
In the USA, as well as many other countries, the Treasury acts as the government's underwriter but [the central bank] controls the money supply using treasury securities and other forms of [hot money]. [The central bank] is usually responsible for managing the currency reserves, including foreign currency reserves, of its government. It also enforces banking laws and operates check clearing.
The BIS acts as a bank to most of the world's central banks. ❋ Abu Yahya (2010)
central banks such as the [Federal Reserve] AKA the Private [Rothschild] NO Reserves, the International Monetary Fraud and the (W)[Bank for International Settlements] ❋ Freeman Buy Silver (2012)
Wow, there were [tons of] [emos] at [the Central Bank] last Saturday ❋ Cthulhu's Bane (2015)
