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The G30 plays blind man’s bluff

Watching governments, central bankers and economists explore the remaining ruins of the old pre-2007 economic structure is like watching children playing a game of blind man’s bluff. Being blindfolded, they cannot see what is around them, and are compelled to rely on their other senses. Much amusement is to be had for the onlookers,…
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Written on February 17, 2013 at 7:09 pm, by robert

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What’s the G30 doing?

It follows the appointment of G30 member Mario Draghi to be president of the European Central Bank (which raised eyebrows in some circles, see here) . Last year also member Mervyn King became chair of the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the Global Economy Meeting (GEM) and the Economic Consultative Committee…
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Written on November 27, 2012 at 3:53 pm, by robert

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Tags: Bank of England, Carney, Corrigan, Draghi, Dudley, Dudley and …., ECB, G30, Gerald Corrigan) and Mario Draghi - though guys like Michael Cohrs at the Bank’s financial policy committee and Ben Broadbent an external member of the MPC help to make up the numbers. And that’s igno, GFC, Group of 30, robert pringle, the Global Economy Meeting (GEM) and the Economic Consultative Committee (ECC) for the BIS. Then the group attracted Jean-Caude Trichet, The Money Trap, to be its new chairman. Glad to see its still hacking it.. Does The G30's network trump that of Goldman Sachs? Apart from Carney can only boast such central banking trophies as Willliam Dudley at the