TY - BOOK AU - Irwin,Neil TI - The alchemists: three central bankers and a world on fire SN - 9781594204623 (hardcover) AV - HG 1811 I72a 2013 U1 - 332.11 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - The Penguin Press KW - Banks and banking, Central KW - History KW - Monetary policy KW - Financial crises KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Bancos centrales KW - Historia KW - Política monetaria KW - Crisis financiera KW - Crisis financiera global, 2008-2009 N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 399-414) e índice; 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 ; Back to Jackson N2 - Explores the work of the world's most powerful central bankers-- --Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank--offering a view from the cockpit of the global economy as the three men struggled to keep it from going down ER -