UK: Eddie George, A great central banker

Eddie George’s skills are missed now more than ever.

A great central banker died in April. The world will miss Eddie George, but it would have missed him more had he still been governor of the Bank of England. His were the qualities that seem to be lacking in his successor, Mervyn King, and it is hard to believe that the financial system would have been subjected to such devastation if he had been governor when the first signals came in that all was not well.

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