Europe gets pissy over Koch-Weser

[DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com]

>>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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