One by one, the props on which financial market participants rely are being kicked from under them. The ratings agencies are utterly discredited; bank chief executives are being forced out; their boards of directors have failed in their duties of oversight; rogue-trader risk is back; bond insurers can no longer be depended on. And now, central banks appear intent on destroying their own credibility.
On January 22 the US Federal Reserve, apparently reacting to the two-day rout in global stock markets, cut interest rates by 75 basis points, its biggest emergency cut since 1982.
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