Let’s not be beastly to the bankers

Headline: Let’s not be beastly to the bankersSource: EuromoneyDate: September 2001Author: Anja Helk This summer the euro began to strengthen, the European Central Bank pleased markets and politicians with a long-awaited quarter-point rate cut and criticism of the policy conduct of the ECB receded. It may be time for a new assessment of how the […]

Headline: Let’s not be beastly to the bankers
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2001
Author: Anja Helk

This summer the euro began to strengthen, the European Central Bank pleased markets and politicians with a long-awaited quarter-point rate cut and criticism of the policy conduct of the ECB receded. It may be time for a new assessment of how the bank has been doing. Clearly it has inherited flaws from the political compromises made to set it up. Is it in such a hopeless state that mistakes will happen again, or were past errors excusable gaffes in an otherwise reasonably successful performance?

       
The Frankfurt-based European Central Bank has been described for most of its short existence in pretty derogatory terms: arrogant, incompetent, out of touch, lacking transparency and credibility – the list goes on.






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