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He would see the madness in investors' eyes. . . and palsied hands of his central banker cronies.

Mr Geithner tends to "smell" his way through situations, a senior central banker says.

A few months ago a senior European central banker confessed that policymakers felt as if they were fighting a financial war.

The central banker's task is to unscramble price signals distorted by panic, not to protect the markets from a signal that they do not like.

Indeed, Mr King is not the only central banker to be under attack.

He was not the only central banker to come to this realisation, or even the first.

Last year he was the first western central banker to call for the use of a leverage ratio to help monitor bank capital levels .

Mr Lanchester's short book will not add much to the knowledge of your average hedge-fund manager and central banker.

Yet it is not clear whether the skills of a central banker are those needed by a Treasury Secretary.

Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, was meant to be anticipating his "central banker of the century" award, and enjoying a well-earned rest.

Kazakhstan's central banker, Grigori Marchenko, had been seen as a third candidate for the post.

'It is going to be presented as a consensus, not a victory and also a step forward in the G-20, ' a G-20 central banker said.

With his research on the Great Depression and inflation targeting, he seems almost freakishly suited to the role of crisis central banker.

CONSISTENCY may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it is an excellent quality in a central banker.

How would he have done compared with a "central banker" low-risk strategy?

Nor, once the crisis struck, was he the only central banker to prove handy with monetary plunger and wrench.

No politician or central banker, no matter how brilliant, is smart enough to know more than the market itself.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent central banker?

The prime minister may well hate his turbulent central banker. But the country is no politician's property.

The comments mark the first time a top central banker has endorsed the notion the non-bank financial system is seeing an old-style bank run.

As the two argued, say people present, the normally genteel central banker raised his voice with Mr. Sarkozy.

An economist, talented central banker and former prime minister, Yushchenko is as dramatic a figure as Tymoshenko.

Yet he still looks more like the gifted young aide of 1997 than an omnipotent central banker.

As he spied the M82 galaxy, 12m light-years away, one central banker remarked: "That puts our problems into perspective. "

Nor does any central banker want to hike rates only to see growth slump again.

Or as one senior central banker recently confessed: "We keep tripping over things that even we barely knew were there. "

Any central banker worth his salt knows what central banks are meant to do: aim for "price stability" .

But the French central banker saw signs the functioning of the banking system was improving.

A US central banker once told me his estimate for the actual storage cost was somewhere between 1 and 2 per cent of the cash value.

One choice is Arseniy Yatseniuk, a former central banker who has served as foreign minister and speaker of the Rada.

The central banker said that means the government could have to pay sharply higher interest rates.

There has been some debate recently about what a central banker should announce concerning his future intentions.

"We must be honest about past errors, " says one senior central banker.

"The key issue is funding, " said one experienced central banker.

But seeing a prospective retail boom in those numbers is a silver-lining-in-the-clouds approach that a central banker cannot afford.

Linguistic contortion is de rigueur for any central banker.

Sir David Walker, a former banker and central banker, thinks much the same.

Liaquat Ahamed suggests that Strong more than anyone else "invented the modern central banker" .

"The important thing right now is that we have acted to strengthen bank regulation, " says one central banker.

A spokesman for the prime minister said Thursday that an interim central banker will be in place while the government considers candidates.

The most likely outcome as we went to press was a new government of national unity, perhaps led by a technocrat such as a central banker.

A former central banker who spent 10 years as a railroad repairman Mr. Ma didn't get into college until his late 20's.

As Mexico's central banker since 2010, Mr. Carstens has delivered enviable price stability.

A central banker who mentioned the idea might soon be out of a job.

And a central banker at that?

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