Europe gets pissy over Koch-Weser

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Wed Mar 1 00:18:12 PST 2000



>>I think the Europeans should nominate Mervyn King. He's witty. He
>>quotes from "Notting Hill" in his speeches. And he praises the three
>>contributions of America to world civilization: "hot showers, central
>>heating, and breakfast meetings..."


>Har, har. As comedy goes, economists should really stick to their
numbers.


>Carl

A bit cruel, perhaps? My best Mervyn King joke comes from his days as Chair of the LSE Financial Markets Group. At a staff meeting, he opened things up by saying "I'll have to leave early, because I've got to go to a short professors' meeting".

Someone who shall remain nameless muttered sotto voce "But Mervyn, when do the tall professors have their meeting?"

I am told that the legendary King sense of humour deserted him for a short while . . . . .

Actually, MK would be a good choice. I've heard him express some quite surprising views on emerging market debt. And his comic delivery is probably the best of any actively working central banker. Certainly better than the godawful McKindroid corporate humour of Howard Davies, and his insistence on working Manchester City into any speech. Though Alan Greenspan looks like he could do a wicked George Burns ("when you marry at my age . . .)

d^2

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