Opinion
Argentine turmoil not caused by overvalued peso
LETTER - Sir, The Argentines are justifiably possessed by a love for the greenback, an infatuation that even the army of psychoanalysts in Buenos Aires will not be able to exorcise. That is the diagnosis offered up by Thomas Catan ("Argentines' love of…
Alan Greenspan's stock on the rise
FEATURE - Is Alan Greenspan a monetary genius with unique insight into the US economy? Or is he a central banker with a taste for obscure diction and data who nonetheless follows a simple rule?
Fed watching moves into the realm of cyberspace
FEATURE - The Federal Reserve, set up by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible and more stable monetary and financial system, is a quint essentially US institution - forthright, functional and for the most part, effective.
MPC member sees room for interest rate fall
FEATURE - Kate Barker's views go against the consensus in financial markets, however.
Currencies consigned to history
FEATURE - "A piece of Europe in our hands" is how Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, greeted the launch of the euro.
BofE's George gives evidence at Treasury Committee
FEATURE - Giving evidence to the UK House of Commons Treasury Committee on Thursday, Sir Edward George, Governor of the Bank of England, said he anticipates recovery for the UK economy but that it would be slow.
Manchester United player joins eurozone collection
FEATURE - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Manchester United has teamed up with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on his return from Europe to collect soon-to-be obsolete currency.
India's gold jewellery rip-off
FEATURE - Most gold jewellery advertised in India as 22-carat is of a lesser quality, a survey by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has revealed.
Japan govt looks to great depression for econ fix
ARTICLE - More than a decade of economic stagnation, marked by financial crisis and deflation that brings the economy to its knees. Then, remarkably, a rapid recovery after a debt-buying binge by the central bank.
Questions for Chairman Greenspan
ARTICLE - By Tom Schlesinger at the Financial Markets Center, Virginia, 20 February.
Stanley Fischer - An Economic Insider's View
FEATURE - Few people are ever privy to how world leaders try to cope with their economic woes. But from his position at the IMF, Stanley Fischer certainly was.
Give Wadhwani a longer run at Bank
FEATURE - Sushil Wadhwani has denied a stock market rumour that he asked Gordon Brown to keep his seat on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee after his three-year term expires in May.
Argentine Senator revises history
FEATURE - At a conference in London this week, Dr Rodolfo Terragno, a member of the Argentine Senate, set out to refute what he termed as the "fairy tale" version of events that shroud Argentina's experience over the past decade. He wanted to expunge any…
France bids tearless farewell to franc
FEATURE - After 650 years of history, the franc disappears this weekend with about as much ceremony as the muttered address at the funeral of a forgotten relative.
Watch the Fed for clues to rise in gold sector
FEATURE - Gold has broken out and there is no shortage of theories as to why and where it's going from here. But, according to Chad Williams, investors should pay no attention to outlooks based on supply and demand, hedging, central bank sales or even…
Succession scramble at ECB
FEATURE - For those few who enjoy the subtleties of central banking politics, a glacial but important semantic change has occurred over the past couple of years.
Poll dares to ask: Who will succeed Greenspan?
FEATURE - A panel of prominent economists this week pondered a question that many Wall Street investors find unthinkable: Who will take the helm of the world's most powerful central bank when Alan Greenspan leaves?
Greenspan's maths skills honed on baseball
FEATURE - Even as a boy, the world's most powerful central banker avidly combed through statistics -- baseball statistics, that is.
Japanese go for gold
FEATURE - Fears are growing again about the health of the Japanese financial system.
Wim Duisenberg's legacy
FEATURE - Wim Duisenberg, the Dutchman who has headed the European Central Bank (ECB) since its inception, is standing down in July next year.
The yen's fundamental weakness
FEATURE - The currency's depreciation stems not from government policy but the state of the economy says Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan's viceminister of finance for international affairs.
A question of balance at the ECB
ARTICLE - Although the European Central Bank is independent and sets policy on a eurozone-wide basis, a huge effort is made to keep representation of the constituent nations in balance.
BSP chief started out as a credit investigator
FEATURE - It is hard to imagine how today's business icons once lugged heavy books to sell, worked at the school canteen, sold pens and paper.
Central Banker of the Year
ARTICLE - The Banker magazine published in London has awarded Mugur Isarescu, Governor of the Central Bank of Romania the title, Central Banker of the Year. Three other governors from the Philippines, Chile and Botswana won regional titles.