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Re:Bank Underground, the blog written by Bank of England staff by pjc50 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:21AM (#11635157)
They're public bankers. It's an arms-length institution wholly owned by the UK government, which has mandated them to set monetary policy to meet statistical targets as a means of de-politicising monetary policy.

It works quite well, certainly better than when it was directly run and the UK had a lot of inflationary instability.

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Re:Bank Underground, the blog written by Bank of England staff by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:27AM (#11636918)
The BoE provides political air cover for political decisions. In no real sense is it politically independent. It can be relied on to do absolutely nothing to promote economic policies that could benefit the majority of the population at the expense of bankers, land owners, rentiers, and speculators.
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