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“Without an agreed framework, in the next crisis, Hank Paulson’s successor will once again be kneeling in front of Nancy Pelosi – I assume she will still be there – asking Congress to rescind the legislation that has restricted the Fed’s powers.”
Mervyn King, former governor, Bank of England
Sometimes, what is forgotten with forward guidance is that we are also speaking to households and businesses, to give them a sense of the general direction, some general orientation: be prepared, but do not overreact.
Mark Carney, governor, Bank of England
Financial intermediaries continue to exercise their privileged position, protected by licences, to determine where money comes from and where it goes to, so as to maximise their already disproportionately large profits and bonuses, paid for eventually by users of financial services
Joseph Yam, former chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
There’s this fear that domestic currencies are going to be totally undermined, so you might actually want to have some sort of central bank digital currency
Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor, IMF
It is only when you get to a relatively extreme situation, where your entire yield curve is very close to the effective lower bound, that targeting specific long-term yields makes sense
Eric Rosengren, president, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
It is possible to take out some of the [populist] anger. But you really do have to have a good executive response. We will have to see how that works out.
Raghuram Rajan, former governor, Reserve Bank of India
China may do some things to reduce the trade imbalance with the US. But actually, the bilateral trade balance does not mean very much. We need to discuss the multilateral balance.
Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor, People’s Bank of China
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