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Weidmann: Central bank communication as a monetary policy instrument
Dear Professor Wambach, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you very much for the invitation to speak here at the Center for European Economic Research in the series of events "First-hand economic policy". With the terms economic policy and hand I involuntarily thought of Harry Truman's famous longing for one-handed business consultants. With their typical " on the one hand ... on the other hand " the economists obviously got on the nerves of the former US president. "First-hand economic policy" in your case, of course, has as little to do with " one-handed economists " as with used-car trading, where the phrase ... (full story)