“The acclaim in the media sends a shiver down the spine. Janet Yellen, just nominated by President Obama as the next head of his Federal Reserve, will be ‘the most powerful woman in the planet’. If we were living in a stable monetary order she would be the least powerful woman in the world. Think back to the era of the gold standard before 1914. Britain was the leader of the orchestra in the monetary system. But no one outside a few discount brokers in London knew the name of the Bank of England Governor, who changed each 2 years.”
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