Saturday, August 17, 2013

Will US take new RBI governor seriously this time?

..........The youngest Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was branded as “misguided” by then US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers when, in a paper titled Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?, he was among a handful who dared to warn against a storm brewing in the financial services sector and questioned whether banks had sufficient liquidity to cope. Rajan was of course proved right when the US sub-prime crisis snowballed into a global economic slowdown.........

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