Former Central Banker Admits “[They] Are Making It Up As They Go Along”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/03/2014
A few weeks ago, William White (former economist at the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, and Bank of International Settlements) made a frank admission: “The analytical underpinnings of what we [mainstream economists] do are actually pretty shaky…I’m becoming more and more convinced that all of the models we use are basically useless… We’ve got the potential to do so much harm by not getting the creation of fiat credit and money right.” Doctors at least have the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. If only economists and central bankers had a similar ethic. But they don’t. So they continue ‘making it up as they go along’, as Mr. White suggests, applying failed ideas with impunity and continued authority to an unquestioning public.
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