Alchemists Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

Name: Alchemists Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
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ISBN: 9781594204623

ISBN-10: 1594204624

ISBN-13: 9781594204623

Edition: 2013

Authors: Neil Irwin

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The inside story of the work of the world’s most powerful central bankers, offering an unparalleled view from the cockpit of the global economy, as three men struggle to keep it from going downSix times a year, Basel, Switzerland, hosts what is arguably the planet’s most exclusive party, an intimate weekend gathering of the world’s most powerful central bankers to exchange ideas, eat and drink well, and revel in the company of the only people who can understand the unique burdens they share. Neil Irwin’sThe Alchemistsopens in Basel during the May 2010 meeting, with Europe in the throes of a particularly acute installment of its ongoing financial crisis, and each of our protagonists facing…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Time Line


Introduction: Opening the Spigot



Rise of the Alchemists, 1656-2006



Johan Palmstruch and the Birth of Central Banking



Lombard Street, Rule Britannia, and Bagehot's Dictum



The First Name Club



Madness, Nightmare, Desperation, Chaos: When Central Banking Goes Wrong, in Two Acts



The Anguish of Arthur Burns



Spinning the Roulette Wheel in Maastricht



Masaru Hayami, Tomato Ketchup, and the Agony of ZIRP



The Jackson Hole Consensus and the Great Moderation



Panic, 2007-2008



The Committee of Three



Over by Christmas



A Wall of Money



Aftermath, 2009-2010



The Battle for the Fed



The New Greek Odyssey



The King's Speech



The Perilous Maiden Voyage of the QE2



The Second Wave, 2011-2012



The Chopper, the Troika, and the Deauville Debacle



The President of Europe



Escape Velocity



Super Mario World



Governor Zhou's Chinese Medicine


Afterword: Back to Jackson


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Notes


Index