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Alasdair Macleod: The ECB and shadow banking

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney.com, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Markets have fully adjusted to a financial world which reflects the leadership and management of money by central banks, and are increasingly frightened of any prospect of their control failing.

Every time the system stumbles, the response has been for central banks to force greater control and regulation upon the monetary system to the detriment of free markets. It is the financial version of the Road to Serfdom. Central banks have become ill-equipped to allow markets to price risk, and in the case of the European Central Bank, it is downright hostile to market-determined prices. ...

... For the remainder of the commentary:

https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-ecb-and-shadow...



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