But in a sense we cannot blame our central bankers because this is all they know.

What is the correlation, you ask, between economic performance and the number of central bankers?

They are training some of the region's future central bankers.

Israel's new central banker, a former Chicago professor, is a hard money man.

Every country needs its central banker, but are they and their like really the men for the hour of national salvation?

"That is a dangerous position for a central banker to be in."

As if the central bankers are acting for the greater good.

"Because he is the best central banker we have ever had."

But he has strong supporters, including many of Europe's central bankers.

That is, in fact, how the central bankers of the world look at gold these days.